http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/article/20130531/PRINCEGEORGE0101/305319991/-1/princegeorge/sd57-146-s-budget-vote-passed-by-narrow-margin
I agree with what Trustee Bourassa had to say:
"I don't believe that it did anything to address any of the input we received from partner groups," said Bourassa. "We went through extreme measures to gather input and had some really good ideas and suggestions and there was nothing in there to reflect that in that budget bylaw. In my opinion, we should have incorporated more of the input we had received into the budget. The two areas that were fulfilled -- the continuation of projects and leaving school-based budgets alone -- were fulfilled by doing nothing."I was also not impressed that we couldn't at least do one thing to reflect the budget input we got from our partner groups. My motion at a previous board meeting because of a procedure problem related to faulty minutes from an in-camera meeting that we did not catch in time. My motion came up again but was not approved:
One of the requests of the expanded budget committee was to hire two occupational therapists and one speech pathologist for the 2013-14 school year using the current unappropriated surplus funding to avoid having to cut existing staff levels. That was presented as a motion at Tuesday's meeting, but was rejected.
This is the second year in a row we have had problems using the input from partner groups in our budget. Hopefully third time is the charm.
