A Charlottetown city councillor is calling on the province and school board to provide funding to extend a pilot project and keep a police officer at Colonel Gray Senior High School.

Cst. Tim Keizer has been spending his days at the school since the beginning of September as part of a pilot program to keep kids safe, and improve relationships with the police.

The program was supposed to wrap up at the end of September but it has been extended until the semester ends in December.

Coun. David MacDonald said Keizer's presence has reduced vandalism in the area and made the school safer.

MacDonald, who chairs the city's protective and emergency services committee, wants to expand the program even more but said the program will die if the province and the school board refuse to offer funding.

"We haven't been able to get any funding from the school board, we haven't got any funding from the province. To run a $100,000 program — that's primarily operating in a provincial school, that comes under the control of the school board — we don't have any kind of monetary contribution from either of those two parties seems to be a little strange," he said.

Tt will cost about $50,000 to keep Keizer at the school until December MacDonald said. "We don't have the money to extend it any further than that and we really don't have the money to extend it until Christmas but we found a way to do that and we will find a way to do that because the feedback has been so positive," he said.

In addition to making the community around the school safer, MacDonald said Kaiser has been teaching students how to avoid drug abuse, alcohol abuse and about traffic safety.

The feedback from the students has alsobeen positive. Students told CBC News they like having Keizer around.

He said he is lobbying the province and school board for financial support for the program.