The Superintendent for the Seine River School Division says they are going to have run a tight ship in the 2019-2020 school year following yesterday's provincial education funding announcement.

The province indicated Seine River would be getting a 0.3 percent increase in its funding but Mike Borgfjord says with their enrolment up 3.4 percent, and projected to continue rising, they were expecting a larger increase.

"Our actual amount is going to be a little more than 0.3 when we go budget to budget," he notes. "We may not be able to add the staff that we would like to add for the enrolment change but we're going to be fine."

He says prioritizing where the division spends its money will be crucial as they come into the budgeting process.

"We recognize that we are in tighter economic times and that anybody in any organization would like a little more financial resources but we're appreciative of what we've received," says Borgfjord who adds budget time is always a challenging time.

"We're going to be looking at what we're going to do, what we're not going to do and how we're going to best use the dollars that we have."

He notes they have enough to provide a good service for their students but what does that mean in terms of taxes?

Well, Borgfjord says while they have not discussed at the board level yet but does not anticipate a big change in taxes this year noting the province has put in a cap that limits tax increases to within two percent for school divisions.