Catholic school trustees wanted a more comprehensive understanding of Holy Trinity’s 2022-23 budget, so division administration answered by creating a report that reviews the top expenses in six categories.
Division administration presented the 2022-23 Budget Top 10s during the recent board meeting. Trustees voted to receive the document as information.
Holy Trinity’s main expenditures are either salaries and benefits or goods and services, but this report focused on the goods and services categories in the division’s budget. The categories included governance, administration, instruction, plant operations and maintenance, student transportation and complementary services.
The expense categories that division administration excluded from the review were tuition and related fees, school-generated fees, and other miscellaneous.
“Good governance is ensuring that we’re fiscally responsible and understanding where the money’s going,” said education director Ward Strueby, “so I really commend Curt (Van Parys, CFO) and the work he did on that (report) because it took a ton of time.
“But it really helps our board members really understand where we are as a division and where we are spending our money.”
The report’s results did not reveal anything new, while nothing was surprising in compiling the data, Van Parys said. He created a similar report for another school division where he worked and found the same results in the six main categories.
Report results
According to the report, Holy Trinity’s total expenses for 2022-23 are projected to be $25,809,929. Of this, $20.8 million will be salaries and benefits, while $4.9 million will be goods and services.
The top 10 expenses in the six categories total $4,737,421, which equals 94.9 per cent of the goods and services budget.
In the governance category, the top 10 expenses total $175,118, which equals 98.7 per cent of that category’s overall expenses.
In administration, the top 10 expenses total $273,305, which equals 86.1 per cent of that category.
In instruction, the top 10 expenses total $1,453,810, which equals 90.7 per cent of that category.
In plant operations and maintenance, the top 10 expenses total $1,810,113, which equals 96.9 per cent of that category.
In student transportation, the top 10 expenses total $857,195, which equals 99.9 per cent of that category.
In complementary services, the top four expenses total $167,980, which equals 100 per cent of that category.
The next Holy Trinity board meeting is Monday, Sept. 19.
