The 2019-20 Budget for the Turtle River School Division has been released.
Shannon Desjardins, secretary-treasurer, says there aren’t any huge changes.
The Turtle River School Division is listening to the government’s mandate of limiting a tax increase to 2%, theirs is 1.98%.
Desjardins says even though they have a balanced budget, they are receiving .6% less provincial funding.
They have a .63% increase in both expenditures and revenue this year.
They are repurposing money from the Indigenous Academic Achievement, English as an Additional Language, and French Language Education to help fund EA’s in all schools, there will be a decrease in their IT budget, a swim program has been created, and they have removed one FTE Educational Assistant.
