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Westley re-elected as chair of Avon Maitland board
By Stew starter
Special to The Expositor
When Meg Westley looked
• around the new version of
the Avon Maitland District
School Board at its inaugural
meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2,
she must have been reminded
of her very first board
meeting, almost exactly three
years earlier.
Westley hinted at her
relatively recent ,i0troduction
i to school board politics, in
expressing why she should
be chosen to return for her
second term as Avon
Maitland chair.
With the Nov. 10
municipal election results
fending five new trustees to
the nine -member board,
Westley suggested her own
experience of being a
newcomer is fresh enough in
her mind, that she would be
very effective at assisting
those five people to learn
about the job.
That commitment, as well
as comments about her
accomplishments over the
past year, formed the basis of
Westley's speech after being
nominated for chair.
The Stratford trustee, who
asked fellow trustees to
remember her work
organizing two information -
gathering sessions with wide
stakeholder involvement,
was promptly re-elected.
The other nominee was
2002 chair Colleen Schenk,
the long -serving North
Huron trustee who served as
Westley's vice chair for the
past year.
Losing the chair vote
wasn't Schenk's only
disappointment of the
evening; she also was
nominated to return as vice
chair, but lost that vote to
second -term South Huron
trustee Randy Wagler.
The board's representative
at the Ontario Public School
Boards Association
.0n13/0 Was a1sq,detci40a4
the Dec. 2
meeting.
Schenk declined a
nomination because her
position on the OPSBA
executive makes her
ineligible.
The other nominees were
all new trustees: Stratford's
Doug Pratley, North Perth's
Jenny Versteeg and Perth
East's Tina Traschel.
Seaforth
man charged
after driving
while
suspended
Huron OPP
A 28 -year -o14 Seaforth
man was charged with
driving while suspended
under the Highway Traffic
Act after he was stopped on
Dec. 2 for driving without
license plates, reports the
Huron OPR
An officer stopped a gray
1990 Chev van, travelling
on Hannah Line in Huron
Bast, and learned that the
vehicle had a temporary
travel permit and then found
that the driver has been
suspended for the past six
months.
The Seaforth resident will
attend court in Ooderich on
Feb. 19.
Female driver charged
A 29 -year-old Morris-
Turnberry women was
charged with driving a
motor vehicle with over 80
mgs., on Dec. 3 on Division
Line in Huron East, reports
the Huron OPP.
An officer stopped a blue
2002 Ford pick-up truck and
found the driver with
alcohol on her breath. She
was given the roadside test
that she failed.
She was arrested and
i taken to Clinton for breath
teiti that found her over the
1 legal limit.
1 She is scheduled to attend
cant in Ooderich on Feb. 2.
Traschel and Versteeg
declined, so Pratley was
acclaimed.
Interviewed following the
meeting, Westley welcomed
the new mix of experience
and new ideas on the Avon
Maitland board.
"Of the new trustees, a
number of them have a fair
amount- of experience at
different levels in the
education s stem "
commented the chair, adding
she was "delighted,
honoured, pleased and
excited" to be re-elected as
chair.
Her acceptance speech
again mentioned the recent
stakeholder meetings, and
included a strong hint there
are more to come.
"I would like ... to build
on what we have achieved
together," Westley said. "For
a long time the board has
lamented the fact that we do
not have a clear strategic
plan. I think the next step
would be to hold an in-depth
session with stakeholders to
create one."
Westley, who teaches
communications at the post-
secondary level, is currently
on leave from her job and is
working on a contract basis
with a Waterloo -based
organization called
"Tamarack."
She's helping establish a
learning centre for the group,
which she describes as an
"Institute for Community
Engagement."
Over the past couple of
years, she has been an invited
guest at conferences hosted
by People for Education, a
non-partisan organization
which analyzes Ontario's
education policy.
Earlier this year, she also
arranged to have the
organization release its 2003
study of rural education
funding at a media event at
Mornington Central Public
School, north of Milverton.
She stressed, however, that
she's not a participating
member of the group.
As for Ontario's new
Liberal government, Westley
was encouraged during a
recent trustee orientation
session in London, hosted by
the Ministry of Education.
Gerard Kennedy, who moved
from Education Critic to
Education Minister when the
Liberals took power, told
those in attendance he'd like
to develop a more
"collaborative" relationship
with school boards.
Westley believes it's the
perfect time for this new
relationship to take place,
particularly in the case of the
Avon Maitland board.
"With so many new faces
(among trustees) and among
senior staff -- and the recent
election of a new
governmentthere is all sorts
of potential for positive
change," she said in her
acceptance speech.
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