Thank you. The Member has covered a lot of areas here with regard to the special needs funding, Mr. Chair. Certainly I would agree that accountability is an important element of any funding that we do. We've been working on a framework for accountability, or concentrated on one. We do get annual reports from the school boards back to us, and in some cases it has a lot of detail in it, in other cases it doesn't have as much detail. We need to continue to work on that, Mr. Chair, to ensure that we do get the kinds of answers, for example, that the Member is bringing up, that we do get an appropriate accounting in detail on all of the expenditures. However, I should point out that the school boards have been very good, very consistent with providing us some detailed business plans and reporting back to us. It is certainly an area that we appreciate the boards on. I think they can go somewhat further. We can demand more, and certainly we'll do that. Thank you.
Jake Ootes on General Comments
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2003. See this statement in context.
General Comments
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 2003
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