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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will raise the fees for its before- and after-school program in elementary schools, but not by as much as it had been planning, trustees agreed Tuesday night.
They’ll raise an extra $1.3 million or so with the fee hike, instead of the $1.7 million they’d previously voted in a committee-of-the-whole meeting. There’ll still be a premium for parents who use odd numbers of “sessions” each week, instead of the most standard pack of five or 10 (typically just mornings or just afternoons, or both mornings and afternoons, but the same thing five days a week). It just won’t be as sharp.
Trustee Shawn Menard had questioned whether the board’s calculation of the deficit in the program, which is required by the province to break even, was accurate. They’ll use the smaller fee hike in the coming school year and get a re-evaluation of the finances from board staff before they have to think about the fees for the year after that.
(This was the substantive dispute that led to the spat between Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee Donna Blackburn and other members of the board over how free she is to talk about board business outside board meetings. She called Menard a “whackjob” for suggesting the board needs less money from the program than its finance staff say it needs.)
Anyway, here’s the revised table of fees, which is from the original report on the issue from last fall. This only apples to extended-day programs the board runs itself, not ones run in OCDSB schools by third parties.
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They’ll raise an extra $1.3 million or so with the fee hike, instead of the $1.7 million they’d previously voted in a committee-of-the-whole meeting. There’ll still be a premium for parents who use odd numbers of “sessions” each week, instead of the most standard pack of five or 10 (typically just mornings or just afternoons, or both mornings and afternoons, but the same thing five days a week). It just won’t be as sharp.
Trustee Shawn Menard had questioned whether the board’s calculation of the deficit in the program, which is required by the province to break even, was accurate. They’ll use the smaller fee hike in the coming school year and get a re-evaluation of the finances from board staff before they have to think about the fees for the year after that.
(This was the substantive dispute that led to the spat between Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee Donna Blackburn and other members of the board over how free she is to talk about board business outside board meetings. She called Menard a “whackjob” for suggesting the board needs less money from the program than its finance staff say it needs.)
Anyway, here’s the revised table of fees, which is from the original report on the issue from last fall. This only apples to extended-day programs the board runs itself, not ones run in OCDSB schools by third parties.
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