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SD5 board notes
The following is a summary of motions carried by the School District No. 5 (SD5) School Board of Trustees on November 12 during a board meeting in Cranbrook.
Motions carried
Advocacy
– That the board write a letter to the BC School Trusteesā Association (BCSTA) with a copy to our stakeholder groups expressing concern over CommunityLINK funding andĀ the inclusion of census data in theĀ Vulnerable Student Supplement (VSS) formula factors, given the concerns Statistics Canada has with the National Household Survey (NHS) and longitudinal analysis data, and that we urge the BCSTA to consider requesting that a) the provincial government update the VSS formula to include more current, accurate data and b) that the federal government return to the more reliable, mandatory, long-form census.
– That the board write a letter to the Provincial Government with a copy to our stakeholder groups expressing concern over CommunityLINK funding andĀ the inclusion of census data in theĀ Vulnerable Student Supplement (VSS) formula factors given the concerns Stats Canada has with the National Household Survey and longitudinal analysis data, and that we urge the provincial government to consider a) updating the VSS formula to include more current, accurate data and b) making a request to the federal government to return to the more reliable, mandatory, long-form census.
– That the board write a joint letter with stakeholders to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging his government to reconsider the changes of the National Household Survey from voluntary back to mandatory and that this letter be copied to Head of Statistics Canada, opposition party leaders, our local MP, the Premier and education ministers of B.C. and their opposition, our local MLA, presidents of the Canadian School Boardsā Association (CSBA), the BC School Trusteesā Association (BCSTA), Canadian School Boardsā Association (CFF), BC Teachersā Federation (BCTF), National and BC Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC)(for distribution to their members), local association chairs/presidents and to media.
– That the board tentatively approve the field trip to Costa Rica for the Grade 10 class at JESJSS in April, 2015.
– That the board write a thank you letter to the negotiators for all their hard work in bargaining the collective agreement with the BCTF.
General
– That the board send a letter to Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett in response to his officeās email response to our request for a progress update on recommendations 24 ā 40 from the Report on the Budget 2014 Consultations from the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, in order to clarify that we are seeking information and not, as the email suggests, attempting to make a late submission to the 2015 Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.
– That the board approves the Capital Project Bylaw Project No. 126803 School Bus Replacement, maximum expenditure of $146,293.26 (Three Readings)
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