The provincial budget released on Wednesday earmarked some extra money for the Chinook School Division.

They will receive about $140,000 more for their 2019-20 fiscal year, but that increase isn't nearly big enough according to the school division.

Rod Quintin, the CFO of the Chinook School Division, said they'd hoped for more with their transportation budget struggling.

"In an ideal world (we would have) hoped for enough money to address that shortfall, which is in the $850,000 range," he said. "The known inflationary costs for salaries and that type of thing. And perhaps even built in something for the yet-to-be-determined inflationary costs."

The yet-to-be-determined costs Quintin noted include utility rate increases, fuel price increases, and the carbon tax.

The latter of which is expected to cost Chinook between $185,000-$200,000.

"But we also expect there will be some indirect costs that will be passed through to us, that are really difficult to determine at this time," he said regarding the implementation of the carbon tax.

The province announced Wednesday during the unveiling of their budget that the education sector would see $19 million more compared to last year and that Chinook School Division would get about $75.44 million.

"It is not going to enable us to move easily to a balanced budget," Quintin said. "There are a number of areas that we're short in our funding and I'm not sure how we're going to make up for that."

He went on to add they need money to replace an aging busing fleet and the only area they could relocate money from is the classroom.