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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, March 15, 1995

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School district

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

The news isn't good for the
Castlegar school district-——it
faces yet another year of finan-
cial restraints.

The Ministry of Education has
notified the district that it will
receive only a .38 per cent or
$56,096 increase in _ its
1995/1996 budget.

more,” said district secretary-
treasurer John Dascher, “It's
going to be a tough situation.
With a $15 million budget it’s a
drop in the budget.”

But Dascher said he’ 's not sur-
prised at the meagre increase.

“I'm disappointed, yes, but I'm
not surprised. My projections
were not for more, but my hopes
were for more.”
¢ district will

Specifically,

“Nothing shocks me any- receive $14,985,570; last year’s

14,929,474. But

eaten up by increasing
costs of providing education.

“A lot will get gobbled up with
what we call statutory benefits
THS WEEK'S SPECIAL such as CPP and UIC. We have
Tenderloin of no control over those increases.
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RON NORMAN

Sun Editor

Castlegar council took the mid-
die road in dealing with a request
from the Castlegar Festival Soci-
ety for a grant to help stage the
annual Sunfest celebrations.

Council to give the soci-
ety $5,000. That fell $2,500 short of
the society's request for a $7,500
grant, but it was up from the $3,500

ded by the He

tion and finance committee.

Still, the $5,000 is only about
half what the city gave the Festi-
val Society last year when the
grant totalled $9,900.

Council was split on the grant
decision. Mayor Mike O’Connor

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And then there's things like
increases for supplies. They don’t
decrease, they go up too.”

On March 16 the two district
unions, parent advisory councils
(PAC), learning disabilities asso-
ciation and other groups will for-
mally present their budget
requests to the board. At that
meeting Dascher expects that the
board will be directing those
groups to revise their drafts.

Board chair Joanne Baker said
that while it would be nice to

have more money in the district's

wallet, she's thankful that the
ministry didn't cut funding.

“It's nice at least that we won't
start out in the position of having
to. cut. But it’s still not enough to
do what we would like to do.”

and councillors Brenda Binnie,
Ron Armbruster and Doug Green
voted against the $7,500, while
councillors Jim Makortoff and
Kirk Duff wererin favor.

Duff and Makortoff said thé
society deserved the $7,500,
pointing out that the request was
already a 25 per cent decrease
from the year before.

Duff called the proposed
$3,500 “punitive”.

Earlier in the council meeting,
former festival society president
Derm Jackson pledged that the
only funding the society would
seek from the city in the future
would be $3,500 to $4,000 to
sponsor the annual parade.

“Last year when we came to
council with our grant request,
we stated that our intention was
to become self-sufficient in the
next two years,” Jackson said.

“We are not at that point in
time yet, but we are getting there
With continued restructuring of
the society and the development
of a policy manual, the society
will reach its goal.”

Cliff Harper, recently-elected
society president, supported
Jackson.

“Let’s not penalize them,” he
said. “Let's support them.”

Jackson noted that when he
took over as society president
three years ago, the society was
saddled with a $8,000 debt. Since
then, the society has managed to
put together a $9,000 surplus.

But_O’Connor said the society
has enough money to be self-suf-
ficient already, pointing out that
the society said it wouldn’t need
a city funding when it had
reached the $10,000 mark.

“You should be coming to the

faces another lean year

Baker said that the board will
now have to “be more creative”
when balancing the budget.

The Ministry of Education has
given districts in the province an
extra two weeks to balance their
budgets, and will have until mid-
May to do so. At that time Castle-
gar’s budget will be approved by
the board bylaw in an open session.

Despite the slight increase for
the Castlegar district, Education
Minister Art Charbonneau
believes that students’ education-
al needs will be met throughout
the province. In a prepared news
release, Charbonneau said the
provincial increase of $84 mil-
lion, or 3.3 per cent over last year
will ensure that the caliber of
education remains a priority.

Council sits on festival fence

city for $1,000,” he said. “I’m not
sympathetic to your request.”

O'Connor suggested the city
finance only the parade at a cost
of $3,500.

He also suggested the festival
society has been mismanaged in
the past and still hasn't tapped
proper revenue sources.

“I don’t think that the festival
society is drawing revenue from
areas it can.”

He pointed to Trail’s festival
society as an example, saying it
gets revenue from participating
organizations.

But Jackson said he knows the
head of the Trail society personal-
ly and that society does not charge
participating organizations. As
well, he pointed out that the Trail
society gets a $14,000 annual
grant from the City of Trail

And he took exception to
O'Connor's comments about
mismanagement

“We have managed it well. We
continue to manage it well.”

Duff agreed, saying: “It has
been my personal opinion you
and your committee have done an
excellent job.”

He said the society is actually
getting to the point of, self-suffi-
ciency “faster than I thought you
would”.

“I fully support what you're
doing,” Duff said and pledged to
Support the $7,500 request.

Councillor Doug Green sug-
gested the society has already
reached its goal of self-sufficien-
cy and doesn’t need the city grant.

“This society could run on its
own now.”

But Makortoff said the society
is one of the more responsible
agencies funded by council.

The Castlegar Sun

Speaker’s Corner

Castlegar stident Tamara Terry is pounding the pavement in

J search of answers to questions that correspond with news stories
that have appeared in The Castlegar Sun. If you see Tamara, it
could be your opportunity to appear in Speaker’ s Corner, which
will be published each week

T think its a good idea, Yes,
but the city and us,
the taxpayers can't
afford it.
—Margaret Kirk

the Columbia
traffic is becoming
way too congested.
—Walter Fields

a Fitzpatrick

Columbia is getting
very congested, espe-
cially around
Ss — 5:00 p.m. rush

Question:
Does the city need a
secondary main traf-
fic route as an alter-
native to Columbia
Avenue.

Columbia ‘needs a
better artery, but
the where would you put
a second road? It
would be better to just
widen Columbia.

—Carol Markowsky

Library vote

KAREN KERKHOFF

Sun Staff

Residents in the Lower Arrow
Columbia electoral area will go to
the polls Saturday to decide if they
want to help pay for the Castlegar
and District Public Library.

Currently, residents in Robson,
Raspberry, Ootischenia, Blueber-
ry, Fairview and Deer Park have

City crews

goes. Saturday

many from

been allowed access to
the library after Ken Wyllie, the
regional director for that district
gave the library $12,000 to help
carry costs until referendum.

Nine voters cast ballots at the
advance poll on March 11.

Head librarian Jean Wear-
mouth said she’s “a bit guarded”
regarding the outcome of the
vote, but did say that she has

were ready

a fairly normal event near the end
of February.”

Comin said that plows are per-
d on the belly of

City crews were exp ig the
freak weather which hit the
Kootenays last Wednesday dump-
ing some 20 centimetres of snow
in Castlegar.

Barry Comin, superintendent of
public works, said crews expect
snowfall at this time of year.

“We were anticipating it. This is

some trucks, while other have a
quick-coupling device which
makes mounting snow-removal
equipment quick and easy.

Even though it’s nearing the end
of snow season, Comin said the
city is “on target” with its snow-

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In 1994 regional membership
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Prior, to that residents paid
$50 per family annually .for
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