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| » recent decision to remove the North Vancouver Board of School Trustees i is:
a result of the Board’s lack of leadership in managing the taxpayers’ money.

7 “The Board claims that its $5-million accumulated deficit is a result of government
- underfunding. The facts tell another story. Here are the facts. 7

- © 64 of the province’s school districts manage to balance ® North Vancow ver School District spends.
their budgets using the same funding formula as North significantly more’on instruction and |
Vancouver. salaries than comparable districts. (See

table below.) The extra it spends accounts

10 other school districts have deficits that, combined,
a for its entire deficit.

total less than $3 million, and every one has a plan to
eliminate its deficit this year. The Education Ministry informed the

In May 1995 the Board forecast a 1994/95 deficit of Board of areas where it could have reduced
$1.7 million; in September the Education Ministry discov- expenditures. The Board chose not to act.

_ered the actual deficit to be $2.6 million. When it finally became clear that the

Also in May 1995, the Board reported that it considered Board was unwilling or unable to make
its preliminary 1995/96 budget to be balanced; in January the tough decisions needed to live within
1996 the Board admitted it-was not meeting its own bud- the taxpayers’ means, there was no choice

. get commitments, that its accumulated deficit was now but to remove it and appoint an official
over $5 million, and that it had no plans to retire it. trustee.

We helieve taxpayers should not have to pay for mismanagement.
School districts, like all of us, have a responsibility to live within their means.
- We have taken action now to protect the future of public education in British Columbia.

B.C. Schoo! Districts Comparison (per pupil spending)*

FUNCTION 1 FUNCTION 4 FUNCTION 5 FUNCTION 7
INSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION MAINTENANCE TRANSPORTATION SALARIES

NORTH VANCOUVER $4,562 $456 $504 $4,432
DELTA $4,250 $468 $690 $4,189
ABBOTSFORD $4,147 $492 $712 $4,051
RICHMOND $4,366 $452 $640 $4,351
COQUITLAM $4,240 $454 $662 $4,138

* 1995/96 preliminary begets

ye Frovince of British Columbia Ministry of Education Hon. Art Charbonneau, Minister