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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, June 6, 2013 | 16 School rental rates going up 8% next year by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff The cost to rent a gym at a local school will be going up eight per cent in the coming school year. The Halton District School Board's superintendent of facility services Gerry Cullen told trustees recently that facility rentals rates will go up at the public and local Catholic school boards. Prices are kept the same at both boards to spread use of facilities evenly and to avoid overuse at one system. Gymnasiums are the most common school rooms rented. Community groups currently pay $12.08 per hour to rent a gym, while the 2013-14 price will go up to $13.05. The four municipalities in Halton Region facilitate rentals at the schools. The eight per cent hike in rates, Cullen said, is a result of a jump in facility use, without an appropriate increase in grants from the Province. The Ministry of Education provides school boards with a grant to subsidize the cost of facility rentals. The cash is calculated on school enrolment and not the volume of rentals or the actual cost of operating these spaces. "We don't get enough grant money for the level of participation we get," said Cullen. In the current school year, the grant reduces the cost of facility rental by 41.1 per cent. For example, the actual cost of a gym rental is $20.54, and community groups pay $12.08. Next year, the actual cost is projected to increase to $21.46. The board calculates the cost of operating the facility and estimates the volume of rentals for the following year. This information then determines how much the grants will reduce the rental rates. As an example, in 2011-2012 the public board received $676,729 in grant money for $1,656,184.00 in rentals. 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