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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.hudsongazette.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Off-island property owners who pay school taxes to support the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) won\u2019t see next month\u2019s bills jump by the hundreds of dollars that other off-islanders\u2019 school tax tab will.<\/p>\n

Last week, Quebec English School Boards Association president David D\u2019Aoust said in an interview that \u201con July 1, when school board tax bills are issued for all of the off-island board areas, taxpayers will notice a significant increase.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this week LBPSB chair Suanne Stein Day reassured ratepayers that her board is an exception. She explained that property owners whose taxes support LBPSB are treated \u201cas if they were a part of a Montreal island board.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only difference, she noted, is that off-island residents receive their bills from the Trois Lacs school board, which then remits the funds to LBPSB.<\/p>\n

\u201cElsewhere in Quebec, in 2007, there was a big increase in real estate evaluation,\u201d Montreal island school tax management committee ceo Sylvie Dorion explained in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government decided to implement a special grant because off-island taxpayers were paying the maximum 35\u00a2 rate for every $100 of evaluation\u2013but the higher real estate evaluations in Montreal meant that we were not at 35\u00a2\u2014so we never got the rebate grant,\u201d Dorion continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why they can\u2019t cut it\u2013because we never had it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported last week, off-island residents can still expect to receive school tax bills, on average, 2.29 per cent higher than last year. They are slated to go out July 1\u2014the fifteenth anniversary of the introduction of linguistic school boards in Quebec by then-Education Minister Pauline Marois.<\/p>\n

At the time, critics fretted that Marois\u2019 move would permit the Quebec government to slash the budgets that the province\u2019s school boards receive. Those fears appear to have been well-founded, as D\u2019Aoust reported that school boards in Quebec received $1 billion less in funding during the past five years.<\/p>\n

Although the Ministry of Education [MELS] web site extols the province\u2019s school boards as \u201clocal governments\u201d that \u201chave taxation powers\u201d, according to Dorion, they now do little more than implement increases imposed by provincial fiat and act as tax collection agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe maximum [school] tax proceeds [that can be collected] is decided by MELS rules,\u201d Dorion confirmed.<\/p>\n

Day underscored in an electronic mail message that \u201cMELS dictates the amount that can be collected. The [Montreal island school tax management committee] does the math to determine the rate. There is virtually no marge de man\u0153uvre.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

LBPSB assistant director-general Carol Heffernan expressed concern that revenue will be insufficient. She observed that Hydro Quebec has already announced electricity rate increases of 2.4 per cent for the coming year, higher than the increase in school tax revenue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe already know that we will have a shortfall in our energy expenses,\u201d Heffernan warned.<\/div>\n

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