After last year's Supreme Court ruling, BC school districts are trying to assemble millions of dollars worth of new staff and resources for the upcoming school year.
Here in the Central Okanagan School District, that includes adding plenty portable classrooms to schools that don't have the room indoors.
School District 23's Secretary-Treasurer Larry Paul says last Friday, the board put in a big budget request to the province.
"We're moving seven portables from current locations that are currently shuttered, to locations where they're needed," he said.
"And then we have ordered six portables for other schools that are in need, and short of classrooms."
He says this means that currently, there simply isn't enough maintenance staff to get all the work done.
"For the crews that we've had in the past, a busy summer is converting three classrooms and moving two portables," he saidÂ
"And so we're looking at moving seven portables, buying six portables, and converting somewhere in the range of 30 classrooms. I mean, we need to get that approval as quick as possible, and start hiring guys to help."
Paul says another factor is that even if the request is approved, demand from the Vancouver area could make for issues in finding a supplier.
"We're not the only school district, obviously, that's having to face this same challenge on space. Is there the production out there to satisfy all the need in the province?" he said.
"Surrey needs a slug of them, and so they could take up all the production in the whole province, and the rest of us are scrambling to go somewhere else."
He says it's not yet known when the province will decide on whether to grant that funding, but that best case scenario would be a decision by the end of the month.