今天，管理部门向董事会提交了一份更新的秋季预算假设报告（BAR）。每年，在预算之前都会准备一份BAR，以表明将提出平衡预算的计划。

今年春天，董事会收到了一份BAR，并根据政府资助将保持不变的假设批准了预算。2019年10月24日，省级预算公布，CBE 宣布预算出现至少3200万加元的缺口。由于这个预算是在学年中发布的，我们现在必须找到相当于4800万加元的年度削减措施，以在2019-2020学年余下的时间节省3200万加元。

更新的秋季BAR概述了我们计划在2019-2020学年余下的时间内通过约4800万加元的年度削减措施平衡预算的领域。以下措施是在春季预算过程中削减4000万加元后的额外措施。

• 削减分配给246所学校的总体拨款，减少2200万加元或2.5%。这将包括消除一些临时雇员合同，并将一些中央和区域人员重新部署到学校，以帮助减轻这种影响。
• 通过降低服务单元减少总体行政开支2-10%。
• 削减计划的资本开支500万加元。
• 在保持2019-2020学年整体服务水平的情况下，调整黄色校车乘坐者的交通费中途增加，因为省政府削减了800万加元的资金。

此外，要求各领导人在不涉及安全、安保或法律合规性的情况下冻结支出。

修订的学校预算拨款（称为RAM - 资源分配模型）将于11月14日发送给所有校长，以便校长进行必要的更改。我们预计对员工的直接影响将在2020年1月之前发生。我们将继续将员工置于非必要物品之上。并不所有的削减看起来都一样；由于各种因素的影响，对一些学校和服务单元的影响可能会有所不同。

今天下午，总监、教育主管和校长们就财务和人力资源流程以及下一步计划进行了讨论。协会和工会领导人也受邀参加。

根据CBE的价值观，我们正在努力将对学生和他们的学习造成的预算影响降至最低。我们知道，教室、学校、家庭和员工都将面临变化，我们将继续把学生放在首位。

感谢工作人员、学生和社区在我们在紧迫时间内进行这一艰难过程中的理解和耐心。

诚挚地，

Christopher Usih
首席学校行政官

Today administration presented the Board of Trustees with an updated fall Budget Assumptions Report (BAR). Every year a BAR is prepared in advance of the budget to indicate the plan to present a balanced budget.

This spring the Board of Trustees received a BAR and approved a budget based on the assumption that funding from the government would remain the same.  On October 24, 2019, the provincial budget was released and the CBE announced a minimum $32 million budget gap. Because the budget comes mid-year, we now must find the equivalent of $48 million in annualized cuts to generate the $32 million in savings over the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.

The updated fall BAR outlines the areas in which we plan to find budget reductions of approximately $48 million in annualized savings to balance the budget over the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. The following strategies are in addition to the $40 million in reductions made during the spring budget process.

• Cutting the overall funding allocated to 246 schools by $22 million or 2.5 per cent.  This will include eliminating some temporary employee contracts and redeploying some central and Area-based staff to schools to help mitigate this impact.
• Cutting overall administration through service unit reductions by 2-10 per cent.
• Reducing planned capital spending by $5 million.
• Increasing transportation fees mid-year for yellow school bus riders while maintaining overall service levels for 2019-2020. This is necessary due to the elimination of $8 million in provincial government funding.

In addition, leaders were asked to freeze spending unless it impacts safety, security or legal compliance.

The revised school budget allocations (known as RAM - Resource Allocation Model) will be sent to all principals on November 14 so that principals can make required changes. We expect that any direct impacts on staff will not occur until January 2020. We will continue to prioritize staff over non-essential goods. Not all cuts will look the same; impacts may be different for some schools and service units due to a variety of factors.

Superintendents, education directors and principals met this afternoon to discuss finance and human resources processes and next steps. Associations and union leaders were also invited.

In keeping with CBE values, we are working to minimize budget impacts to students and their learning. We know that classrooms, schools, families and employees will face changes and we will continue to put students first.

Thank you to staff, students, and the community for your understanding and patience as we work through this difficult process on a condensed timeline.

Sincerely,

Christopher Usih
Chief Superintendent of Schools