The budget for the Mountain View School Division for the 2019-20 school year has increased 352,142 dollars to 42, 366, 055 dollars.
The increase will help the school division avoid making significant cuts in any area.
The idea heading into creating this budget was to make a responsible budget that maintains the programming they have in the division.
After the difficulty with decreases for the 2018-19 budget, this budget was a lot easier to make.
Last year they had to reduce 4 or 5 staffing positions, 3 teaching, and non-teaching positions as well.
This year no reductions of that source will be made.
Bart Michaleski, MVSD Secretary-Treasurer, says the budget is one piece of an overall discussion that’s going to happen this year on education.
“There’s a large systemic review that’s going to be starting in the next month or so. So we want people to know and understand the budget, but we want to ensure they’re engaged in the broader conversation that’s going to go on provincially.”
The taxes have increased this year. MVSD Special Levy increased 2.75% which will bring in 16, 992, 673 dollars and the MVSD Mill Rate is up 1.82% to 15.63.
The budget has increased in the areas of staff professional development by 5, 000 dollars, field trip budget by 2, 078 dollars, and technology/software licensing by 16, 000 dollars. Reductions have made to the school instructional and supply budgets by 37, 753, and the total materials/supplies budget by 38, 394 dollars.
There is a projected growth of 13 students for the division in the next school year.
