Transportation allocation
 54. (1) The transportation allocation is the total of the following amounts: 1. The enrolment adjustment amount. 2. The fuel escalator and de-escalator component amount. 3. The school bus rider safety training amount. 4. The provincial or demonstration school amount. 5. The cost update adjustment amount. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (1); O. Reg. 15/23, s. 1 (1). (2) Despite subsection (1), the transportation allocation for the Lakehead District School Board is determined by adding $80,000 to the amount determined under subsection (1). O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (2). (3) The enrolment adjustment amount is determined as follows: 1. Take the amount determined under paragraph 1 of subsection 52 (1) of the 2021-2022 grant regulation. 2. Take the 2021-2022 day school average daily enrolment of pupils. 3. Divide the current fiscal year’s day school average daily enrolment of pupils by the number determined under paragraph 2. If the result is less than one, it is deemed to be one. 4. Multiply the number determined under paragraph 3 by the amount determined under paragraph 1. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (3). (4) The fuel escalator and de-escalator component amount is determined as follows: 1. For each month in the fiscal year, other than July and August, calculate an amount using the following formula: [A/(1 + B) – C] ÷ C in which, “A” is the average diesel price for southern Ontario for the month or, in the case of a northern board, the average diesel price for northern Ontario for the month, as reported on a website of the Government of Ontario, “B” is the tax rate for the Harmonized Sales Tax under Part IX of the Excise Tax Act (Canada), and “C” is $0.936 or, in the case of a northern board, $0.957. 2. For each month in which the amount determined under paragraph 1 is greater than 0.03, calculate the amount determined using the following formula: (A – 0.03) × B × 0.012 in which, “A” is the amount determined under paragraph 1, and “B” is the amount determined under paragraph 1 of subsection (3). 3. For each month in which the amount determined under paragraph 1 is less than –0.03, calculate the amount determined using the following formula: (A + 0.03) × B × 0.012 in which, “A” is the amount determined under paragraph 1, and “B” is the amount determined under paragraph 1 of subsection (3). 4. Total the amounts, if any, determined under paragraphs 2 and 3. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (4). (5) The school bus rider safety training amount is determined as follows: 1. Multiply the school bus rider safety training sessions, junior kindergarten to grade 8, specified for the board in Column 2 of Table 26 by $370. 2. Determine the number of on-site school bus rider safety training sessions provided in accordance with the document entitled “Memorandum 2022 SB04: Student Transportation – Grants for Student Needs, 2022-23”, dated February 17, 2022, that the board conducted in the current fiscal year for junior kindergarten to grade 8. 3. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 2 by $370. 4. Determine the number of online school bus rider safety training sessions conducted in accordance with the document referred to in paragraph 2 that the board conducted in the current fiscal year for junior kindergarten to grade 8. 5. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 4 by $244. 6. Total the amounts determined under paragraphs 3 and 5. 7. Take the lesser of the amounts determined under paragraphs 1 and 6. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (5). (6) The provincial or demonstration schools amount is the board’s expenses in the fiscal year that is approved by the Minister, based on submissions by the board, in respect of transportation to and from a school of the Centre Jules-Léger Consortium, the Ontario School for the Blind, an Ontario School for the Deaf or a demonstration school established by or operated under an agreement with the Minister for pupils with severe communicational exceptionalities. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (6). (6.1) The cost update adjustment amount is determined as follows: 1. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 1 of subsection (3) by 0.88. 2. Multiply the amount determined under paragraph 1 by 0.02. O. Reg. 15/23, s. 1 (2). (7) For the purposes of this section, an expense by a board is a transportation expense if it is categorized as a transportation expense in the Ministry’s Uniform Code of Accounts, revised April 2022. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (7). (8) For the purposes of this section, the following boards are northern boards: 1. Algoma District School Board. 2. Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales. 3. Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivières. 4. Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario. 5. Conseil scolaire de district catholique Franco-Nord. 6. Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario. 7. Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l’Ontario. 8. District School Board Ontario North East. 9. Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board. 10. Keewatin-Patricia District School Board. 11. Kenora Catholic District School Board. 12. Lakehead District School Board. 13. Near North District School Board. 14. Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board. 15. Northeastern Catholic District School Board. 16. Northwest Catholic District School Board. 17. Rainbow District School Board. 18. Rainy River District School Board. 19. Sudbury Catholic District School Board. 20. Superior-Greenstone District School Board. 21. Superior North Catholic District School Board. 22. Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board. O. Reg. 396/22, s. 54 (8). Administration and Governance Allocation