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SUNDAY
May.14, 1995

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

LENEEN ROBB contemplates her predicament on the Upper Levels. On Thursday, a lad-
der fell off a truck, causing Robb to try to avoid it. A Subaru hit her car from behind. The
Subaru was hit by a Mazda. A pickup rear-ended the Mazda. The trucker, returning for

his ladder, found police eager to talk to him. The Mazda's driver went to hospital.

NORTH VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD
By Kevin Gillies -

One week before the budget must be submitied to
Victoria -- Tuesday, May. 16-— District 44
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robin’ Brayne told
trustees that, at current spending levels and with no
discretionary increases, the district’s cash shortfall
could reach 33.265 million.

The district. expects a minimum deficit for the
1994-95 school year to be $1.7 million.

Brayne said controlling a $3-million debt would
be an “insurmountable task” for the board.

In presenting the budget's first draft to the bourd.
Brayne said the following would combine to elimi-
nate $250,000 in district expenses:

School board eyes $3.2m debt
NORTH VANCOUVER School District 44°
will have to cut as much as $1.565 million in
expenditures from its 1995-96 budget if it is
to balance next year’s budget and keep its’.
debt at the current $1.7 million.

Education expenses;

@ reduced special education transportation costs;

@ reduced travel and seminar (professional develop-
iment) expenses and

Wa reduction in a myriad of non-personnel services,

The nan-replacement of four senior administrators
who retired in January would cut another $360,000
(total combined remuneration) from the budget.

Brayne said a further $1 million needed to be cut
to balance the 1995-96 budget.

The funding allocated to the district for 1995-96
trom Victoria was increased by 2.55% ($2.4 million)
over. 1994-95's $91-million operating budget. But
District 44 enrolment is expected to increase by
1.92% (329 full-time-cquivalent students).

Brayne noted that this amounted. to “no real
increase in -ability to spend,” because equipment

(desks, books, ete.) would have to be purchased and - Yq

teachers hired for the new students.

An exasperated Brayne’said it was the fifth con-

secutive year the board would have to cut spending to
balance the district’s budget. ;

School district deficits are net allowed by the
provincial government without the education minis-

-ter’s approval.

See Province page 5

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