Lined Paper (The Record Off The Record) is my personal record of and commentary on SD61 Board and Standing Committee meetings. Official, approved minutes are on the SD61 website, one month after the meeting.

SD61 Greater Victoria School District primarily serves students in Esquimalt, Oak Bay, Victoria, View Royal, parts of Saanich and the Highlands, and the Traditional Territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. 

Strategic plan here.

P1: Backgrounders/ Trustee  Appointments
P2: Board  Meeting: Meeting agendas posted on SD61 website Friday before the meeting. Board meetings  audio and video recorded, though Standing Committees are not. (Under the Board of Education menu.)
P3 : Students with Intensive Behaviour Support Needs / Severe Mental Illness [inadequately  funded support : Level 3 supplementary funding (highest level)  $ 9,500 per student / $24.59 District Education Assistant hourly  /    = 2 hours and 15 minutes per each 5 hour day. No problems  after lunch,  apparently, according  to  Ministry of Education funding. Not hard to figure out where the funding for the gap comes from. Check page 3 for a funding idea from Alberta.]

GVSD 61 TRUSTEE REPRESENTATIVES AND TRUSTEE ASSIGNMENTS 2017
Board Chair: Loring-Kuhanga  Vice-Chair: Ferris

Ad Hoc Committees of the Board and their terms of reference are listed on the SD61 website.

BOARD STANDING COMMITTEES 2017
(Loring-Kuhanga member of both, ex officio)
Operations Policy&Planning: Chair Watters, McNally, Leonard, Paynter
Education  Policy Development : Chair Whiteaker, Ferris, Nohr, Orcherton
Policy SubCommittee: ongoing appointments by the Chair

Standing  Committees  operate on less formal   Rules of Order than does the Board, ie. no need for a seconder for a motion, and a Trustee  can speak as many times as the Chair thinks is reasonable; members of the public and presenters can ask questions of each other and engage in dialogue.The question can’t be called in a standing committee, meaning debate can extend for some time.  After a motion to restrict voting in Standing Committees  to only assigned members of the committee (sensible, as if all Trustees are present and vote, it’s an improperly constituted  Board meeting). If Trustees choose not to attend the committee for which  they don’t have a vote, it’s very possible to  miss vital information.

Trustee salaries (aka “stipend): $20,486/year effective Dec 1/14. Chair and vice-chair receive an extra $3,000 and $1,500, respectively.

INTERNAL COMMITTEES 2017

Aboriginal Nations Education Council	McNally
District Facilities Planning Committee	Ferris
Gender Sexuality Alliance	Watters
Equity Ad Hoc Committee	Paynter & Watters
French Immersion Advisory	Ferris
Needs Budget Advisory Committee	Orcherton, Leonard, Nohr
Public Engagement Ad Hoc Committee	McNally & Orcherton
Student Registration & Transfer Committee	Ferris & Nohr
Middle School Review Committee	Whiteaker & Leonard

EXTERNAL TRUSTEE LIAISONS – COMMUNITY 2017

Saanich Arts, Culture & Heritage	McNally
Saanich Parks, Trails & Rec	Whiteaker
Healthy Saanich Advisory Committee	Orcherton
Victoria Family Court & Youth Justice Committee	Watters

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS 2017

Allied Specialists Association	Orcherton
CUPE 382	Watters
CUPE 947	Paynter
Exempt Staff	Ferris (Alternate –Whiteaker)
GVTA	Nohr (Alternate –Leonard)
Principals & VP	Loring-Kuhanga (Alternate –McNally)

SECONDARY SCHOOL CATCHMENT AREA GROUPS LIAISON 2017

Spectrum	Ferris& Leonard
Mount Doug	Paynter
Oak Bay	Loring-Kuhanga
Reynolds	Nohr&Orcherton
Vic High	McNally
Lambrick	Whiteaker
Esquimalt	Watters

BOARD-ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES TO EXTERNAL  ORGANIZATIONS 2017

British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA)	Paynter
British Columbia School Trustees Association (BCSTA)	Whiteaker