The east Ottawa school council that's missing $70,000 from its bank account is trying to get the school board to keep their after-school program alive.
In an update posted to their website, the parent council for Rockcliffe Park Public School said they reached out to the Ottawa Carleton District School Board to see if they could give them a loan.
However, they then reviewed their rules and realized they may be unable to borrow money because of the missing funds.
"It has concluded that the Council may be prohibited from borrowing money and is also likely prohibited from using monies that it has received from revenues of the Rockcliffe Park Book Fair to repay monies that have been misappropriated," they said in the update.
That money would have been used to pay the Bettye Hyde Cooperative Nursery School, which is owed just under $35,000 for its after-school program.
The council asked the OCDSB if they could pay Bettye Hyde instead, to which the school board said they'd consider it at their April 24 meeting.
That would be after an April 20 deadline Bettye Hyde had put in place to receive the money, or they'd stop the programs as of May 4.
The council then asked Bettye Hyde if they'd push their deadline back to April 27, which the nursery school agreed to.
Rockcliffe Park council says they've cancelled their special all-parents meeting Tuesday while they wait for the school board's decision.
It's been tentatively rescheduled for April 25.
Police are investigating how the money went missing from the council's account after parents first noticed irregularities in February.
Bettye Hyde said they haven't been paid since Dec. 1, 2011.
