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PAGE 4 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JULY 3,2002 JASON LIEBREGTS/Statesman photo Try this on for size PICKERING - Kieran Conway of Bowmanville gets a helping hand trying on fire equipment by Pickering Nuclear Firefighter Dave Sleeman at an Ontario Power Generation Generation Discovery Day. CLIFF MILLS MOTORS 2001 Pontiac Grand Amt Air Conditioning Power Locks Power Windows Rear Deck - Spoiler i Aluminum Wheels Automatic All Grand-Ams Will Be Specially Tagged Priced From "15,995 will be clearly marked on windshields I is win ce opeciany laggec 115,995 More money for separate board, but no new programs BY CRYSTAL CRIMI Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Local separate schools won't be getting extra programs added to their classrooms. Trustees at last week's Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Claring- ton Catholic District School Board passed a $104,679,285 status quo budget budget for the 2002-03 school year. Last year's budget was $101,059,928. Though PVNC is spending more money this year, the additional funds will not go toward new classroom initiatives. initiatives. As well, programs cut to provide provide a balanced budget for 2001-02 will not be put back. The additional $3.5 million will be spent on increased fees, higher teacher salaries, $631,896 for transportation, $451,929 for school operations allocations, allocations, a $451,948 textbook grant announced announced in May, and more. "Obviously it's tight and it's.been tight last year and this year, but we're not seeing the new funding in reality," said Clarington trustee Barbara Malone. "I can't say I'm happy with (the budget), budget), but I'm happy with the staff who have done it. They spent hours and hours with it." A big concern for Trustee Malone is special education funds. PVNC has doubled its claims for Intensive Support Amount grants, but the government has frozen funding at last year's amount. The shortfall is causing a strain. "It's not an area you ever want to comprise," she added. "As a board of trustees we will continue lobbying the Province for the shortage of ISA funding funding and work hard to replace the LAs." One change made to the budget before before it was accepted was allocating another another $ 120,000 for special education assistants. assistants. The additional money was juggled juggled out of other sections, such as the elimination of overtime for human resources resources staff. Mrs. Malone said PVNC has always done its best in making sure special education gets as much money as possible. "We've always spent more than the grants provided - you can't not provide the service," she said. Special education funding is set at $10,038,957 this year, a $41,374 increase over last year. After the operating necessities arc met, PVNC will Ire left with about $175,000 to address what has been listed listed :ts priorities. 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