Living Sky passes budget despite funding challenges
Living Sky School Division passed its budget for the 2018-19 school year but had to contend with a $653,000 funding reduction.
The funding decrease was mainly due to a decrease in student enrolment numbers projections for the next school year.
Board chair Ronna Pethick said the division projected a reduced enrolment for the next school year of about 100 students which impacted funding.
“We never like to lose students but the budget is totally related to student numbers,” she said. “When you have decreasing student enrolment, then we understand that we would get less money from the province.”