A group of parents and teachers have come up with a list of proposals to trim the school district's budget by $9 million over three years in answer to a challenge trustee Roxanne Ricard issued last month at the start of a 60-day consultation period into closing a dozen schools and reconfiguring two others.
In all, 23 ideas are aired in the report authored by 31 people involved with the school district as either employees or parents and sent to trustees late last week -- from cutting the travel budget to issuing a challenge to reduce photocopying by five per cent a year.
If all were implemented, they would go a long way to addressing the school district's $11-million budget shortfall except for one proviso -- the school district says it needs to cut spending by $7 million for 2010-11 and the report's authors admit many of the savings would only be realized after three years.
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