Council voted Wednesday to spend $38,500 from the city’s “unforeseen account” to temporarily fund 11 adult crossing guards at school locations across Ottawa.
School boards identified 12 locations where crossing guards were warranted for the start of the 2014-2015 academic year, but the public works department — in which crossing guards are included — only had enough money to fund one position because of the deficit in its snow-removal budget.
Instead, council will fund the remaining 11 crossing guards from the emergency fund until the end of the year. The next term of council will have to find more permanent funding for the positions in the 2015 budget.
The 11 schools that will receive crossing guards are A. Lorne Cassidy School, E.E.P. Maurice-Lapointe, St. Clare School, Reine des Bois/La Source, Featherstone Drive P.S., Lakeview P.S., W. Erskine Johnston P.S., St. Brigid C.S./Rockcliffe P.S., Canadian Montessori Academy/Meadlowlands P.S., Charles Hulse P.S., and Elmdale P.S./Hilson P.S.
