Enveloping, program improvements
43.1 (1) Subject to subsection (6), a district school board shall ensure that the total calculated for the board under subsection (2) is not less than the amount set out for the board in Table 17.1. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (2) The total referred to in subsection (1) is the total of the following amounts: 1. The pupil support staffing amount calculated for the board under subsection (3), whether the amount is positive or negative. 2. The pupil support non-staffing amount calculated for the board under subsection (4), whether the amount is positive or negative. 3. The pupil support special expenditures amount calculated for the board under subsection (5), if the amount is positive. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (3) The pupil support staffing amount for the board is the total of the amounts calculated for persons employed by the board in each of the categories of teachers, teaching assistants, principals, vice-principals, professionals and paraprofessionals, co-ordinators and consultants, and clerical and secretarial staff employed in schools within the meaning of Appendix H of the 2004-05 School Board Estimates, dated May 26, 2004, excluding persons employed in continuing education, in special education programs or in programs funded by provincial grants other than those made under section 234 of the Act, using, for each category, the following formula: [A – (B × C/D)] × [E/B] × 1.02 in which, “A” is the full-time equivalent number of persons employed by the board in the 2004-2005 fiscal year in the category, “B” is the full-time equivalent number of persons employed by the board in the 2003-2004 fiscal year in the category, “C” is the 2004-2005 day school average daily enrolment of pupils of the board, “D” is the 2003-2004 day school average daily enrolment of pupils of the board within the meaning of Ontario Regulation 137/03 (Calculation of Average Daily Enrolment for the 2003-2004 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, “E” is the total cost in the 2003-2004 fiscal year of the salaries and employee benefits of the full-time equivalent persons counted for the purposes of determining “B”. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (4) The pupil support non-staffing amount for the board shall be determined using the following formula: A – [(B × C/D) × 1.02] in which, “A” is the total of the expenditures of the board in the 2004-2005 fiscal year in the categories listed as 51 to 62 and 67 in Schedule 10 of the 2004-05 School Board Estimates, dated May 26, 2004, not including, (a) expenditures for salaries and employee benefits, (b) expenditures in special education programs, and (c) expenditures funded by provincial grants other than those made under section 234 of the Act; “B” is the total of the expenditures of the board in the 2003-2004 fiscal year in the categories listed as 51 to 62 and 67 in Schedule 10 of the 2004-05 School Board Estimates, dated May 26, 2004, not including, (a) expenditures for salaries and employee benefits, (b) expenditures in special education programs, and (c) expenditures funded by provincial grants other than those made under section 234 of the Act; “C” is the 2004-2005 day school average daily enrolment of pupils of the board; “D” is the 2003-2004 day school average daily enrolment of pupils of the board within the meaning of Ontario Regulation 137/03 (Calculation of Average Daily Enrolment for the 2003-2004 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (5) The pupil support special expenditures amount for the board shall be the extent, if any, to which the board’s expenditures in the 2004-2005 fiscal year in the categories mentioned in subsections (3) and (4), (a) exceed the board’s expenditures in the 2003-2004 fiscal year in the categories mentioned in subsections (3) and (4); (b) have not been taken into account in calculating the amounts under subsections (3) and (4); and (c) have been approved by the Minister for the purpose of this subsection. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (6) If the total calculated for the board under subsection (2) is less than the amount set out for the board in Table 17.1, the board shall place the difference in a reserve fund for program improvements. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (7) In this section, “program improvements” are, (a) increases in the number of employees in the categories of employees counted under subsection (3) in determining the board’s pupil support staffing amount, and (b) increases in the board’s expenditures in the categories counted under subsection (4) in determining the board’s pupil support non-staffing amount. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4. (8) This section shall not be interpreted as limiting the amount that a board may spend on program improvements. O. Reg. 375/04, s. 4.