The Bluewater school board is moving from eleven part-time community education co-ordinator positions to three full-time positions next year.
Manager of Plant Services, Al Gibb, says the goal is to open up the school facilities to more organizations in the area by having staff working normal business hours, rather than in the evening on a part-time basis.
The board receives money from the province based partially on the use of the school facilities by outside groups.
Gibb says the re-organization allows people to book facilities on-line and with increased provincial funding the cost to each group will gradually be reduced.
Rental rates are posted on-line.
Over the last year, 22 thousand people made use of school facilities after hours in the Bluewater system for a total of 700 thousand hours of use.
Along with allowing more groups to make use of school facilities, Gibb says they will work on finding ways to let smaller courses run in the evening with fewer participants.
Until now, the part-time co-ordinators worked three to four hours an evening at high schools in the area, looking after the booking of facilities.
The three new full time people will work 40 hours a week Monday-Friday during regular business hours.
Gibb says the new positions will be filled by early January.