Monday, August 31st, 2009 | 5:00 pm By Adrian Nieoczym Kelowna.com:
Okanagan schools will have to make do with less maintenance and could see job losses, after the the provincial government cancelled $110 million worth of annual facility grants it gives to B.C. schools.For the Central Okanagan School District, that means a loss of $3.6 million for the 2009/10 school year. The grants, which the government has handed out on top of school districts’ core funding since 1988, cover “those types of ongoing maintenance issues that have to do with keeping the buildings in good repair, keeping them hygenic, keeping them clean, keeping them safe,” said Rolli Cacchioni, chairman of the Central Okanagan Board of Education
Don Quixote Note:Annual Facility Grant For 2008/09
Each year, school districts receive funds for renovation that will extend the
useful life of district facilities. A school district's Annual Facility Grant is
calculated using a formula based on student enrolment and the average age
of a district's school buildings.
22 Vernon $ 1,684,021
83 North Okanagan-Shuswap $ 1,633,954
Provincial Total 110,743,750
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