Living Sky struggles with big deficit following provincial cuts
Living Sky School Division is facing the proposal of eliminating positions as it struggles to cope with the burden of a hefty $6 million deficit on its books, as the board sits down to review the new budget.
The division started with about $3 million in the red, in what the director of education refers to as a structural deficit, from the prior year.
The school division board met last week to discuss how to deal with the issue while reviewing a proposal for cuts for the school division’s 2017-18 school-year operating budget.
“It came as a shock, definitely,” Education Director Dave Hutchinson said on discovering the province’s budget meant a 4.6 per cent decrease in operating grant funding for the division for the school year ahead.