The Citizen, 2002-11-20, Page 13Thresher Reunion winners
Students from Blyth Public School were presented with
prizes for their winning drawings and stories for the Huron
Pioneer- Thresher Reunion last September. The winners
were, in back, from left: Grade 6 students Rachelle
Ducharme, honourable mention; Jessica Sperling, first and
Ben Rouw, honourable mention. In the middle: Grade 3,
Michelle Sludhalter, first; Grade 4, Alix Sholdice, first; Grade
4, Jason Young, honourable mention; Grade 3, Kayla Black,
honourable mention and Grade 1, Brendan Safr,
honourable mention. In front: Grade 1, Michael Van Wyk,
honourable mention; Grade 2, Joshua Raynard, first and
Grade 1, Ryan Nesbitt, first. Other winners were from
Colborne Public School. (Janice Becker photo)
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002. PAGE 13.
AMDSB trustees will meet twice a month
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
After deliberating about cutting
back on the number of regular
meetings, trustees of the Avon
Maitland District School Board
decided Tuesday, Nov. 12 to
continue the present two-meeting-
per-month schedule.
The discussion began after several
changes in board policy were
brought forward from the Policy
Committee, which is a sub-
committee of the board.
Past-chair Wendy Anderson raised
a number of concerns, including the
make-up of two other sub-
committees: the audit committee and
the chair's committee. These were
dealt with through amendments.
which were approved by the
board.
In response to the policy
committee's recommendation that
the board permanently eliminate the
first meeting in January from its
annual schedule, Anderson
wondered whether all months of the
year should be reduced to just one
regular meeting.
She noted the agenda had been
fairly light in recent months, making
it possible that all of the month's
business could have been achieved
in one meeting instead of two.
Board Vice-Chair Rod Brown,
who serves as chair of the policy
committee, informed Anderson that
the prospect of moving to one
meeting per, month had not been
addressed formally by the policy
committee.
But he confirmed the notion had
been the object of informal
discussion..
And he said his personal feeling is
that it should be considered,
especially since the board recently
rejected moving ahead with what
would have been a controversial and
complicated accommodation review
process.
But Listowel-area trustee Don
Brillinger was quick to criticize the
idea. "There are a lot of reasons to
have regularly-scheduled meetings,"
he said.
"Lord only knows, 1 sit on other
boards, and I would love to sit home
for a night watching hockey, but I
don't think that serves the taxpaying
public as well as it deserves to be
served."
If agenda items are scarce, he
suggested, board members should go
to the work of finding important
issues that need to be discussed. He
referred- to the difficult discussions
about cutting the Tech 21 program
last spring, and said the board will
find it just as challenging to balance
its budget in June, 2003.
"I think there are some very
important issues that this board
should be looking at all the time, not
just in June when it's time to cut,"
Brillinger argued.
Stratford representative Meg
Westley agreed, adding the board
should establish some sort of process
by which trustees can add items to
an agenda for discussion.
The policy committee
recommended eliminating the first
meeting of the month each January;
because "this meeting has been
cancelled each of the past two years
. . . because there has been no or
insufficient business for trustees to
examine."
Already, the months of December
and March only have one regular
board meeting, due to the Christmas
and March breaks.
All other months have Iwo
regularly scheduled meetings, with
special meetings called either at the
discretion of the chair, or at the
request or three board me n
hers
Following the discussion, trustees
approved' eliminating the ftrkt
meeting in January.
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