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Public sehool board budget The Canadian Champion, Tuesday June 25, 2002 -3 Final budget expected to be approved at board meeting BY TIM WHITNELL Special to The Champion Its gettmng close to the 11 lth hour in Halton District School Board budget tallçs, but mnstead of making deci- sions about where to eut $4 million, trustees are stili discussmng what to save. Despite a deadline of Juiy 2 iooming for ail scbooi boards in the province to submailtbeir 2002-03 budgets for Mmnistry of Education approval, tbere was only modest debate. and no decisions made, about the coming sebool year budget at Wednesdays board met- ing. A final budget is expected to bc approved at fomorrow's board meeting, wicb wili begin at 8 p.m. Transportation (busing) poticy exceptions formaiiy requested by three trustees, bave tbe potenfial t0 require board administrators to fîmd $100,000 from somewhere else in budget expenditures. The board is already wrestiing witb a littie more tban $4 million in proposed spending cuts in order to gel down to tbe expected provin- cial revenues of $285.5 million for tbe next sebool year. tomorrow night Proposed cufs include $233,000 in current busing policy exemp- tions. Board Chair Ethel Gardiner asked ber colleagues f0 reinstate a busing exemption for Georgefown scbooi cildren in ber constituency of Halton l-ills. The cool f0 keep that busing intacf is $105,000. Burlingfon Trustee David Abbof f lofer jumped in and indicated he wanted a busmng exemption for somne students going to the new Florence Meares Scbool opening in September. Oakville Trusfee Kelly Amos alto asked for a busing exception for some Sheridan Park Sebool students. In other budgef discussions Wednesday, Business Superintendent Caria Kisko told trusfees not to gef too excifed abouf another $400 million for educafion announced recenfly. Haiton is eigible for some por- tion of about $50 million, but even that's subdivided into specific spending areas, she said. Burington Trustee Debbie Downs suggested trustees sfart looking in every nook, inciuding their own $5,000 annual expense accounits, to fmnd extra money for tbe budget. "We're dissolimg ail the rest of the reserves ini the system s0 we might as weil look af that.' Ms Downs said there might be as mucki as $40,000 in unspent expense funds that could be trans- ferred to the operating budget, which Ms Kisko and Education Director Dusty Papke indicated is a possible manoeuvre. One bit of good fmanciai news from the board concems a deal if bas struck with Pepsi. The board has an agreement in principle to exclusively provide the soft drink through vending machines on ifs properi y. 'he five- year pact would nef the board more than $700,000. Some of the money will come in a lump sum, said Ms Kisko, with an undetermined amount f0 be for- warded f0 the Halton Learning Foundation. That group of public volunteers co-ordinates programs like Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), Food For Thought and the Bronte Creek project - ail of which have involved Halfon students in the past. 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