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SUMMARY OF
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
NOT OFFICIAL MINUTES
SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION
AND CORRECTION
PRESENT: Trustees Riley Brockington, Bronwyn Funiciello, Alex Getty, Lynn Graham (Chair),
Margaret Lange, Greg Laws, Jim Libbey, David Moen, David Primeau, Lynn Scott and Joan Spice.
STAFF: Superintendent Laura McAlister, Executive Officer, Michele Giroux, Manager of Board
Services, Monica Ceschia; Communications Coordinator, Sharlene Hunter, AV Technician Robert
Giekes; and Committee Coordinator, Board Services, Kim Young.
STUDENT TRUSTEE: Steven Robins
1 . Call to Order and Approval of Agenda
Chair Graham called the public session of the meeting to order at 10:55 p.m.
Moved by Trustee Lange, seconded by Trustee Brockington,
THAT the agenda be approved as presented.
- Carried -
MOTIONS APPROVED BY THE BOARD
2. Report of the Special Meeting of the Education Committee, 30 November 2006
(Motion by Trustee Scott, seconded by Trustee Laws)
THAT a consultation process (as per Appendix A of report No. 06 -251) be
implemented from mid - December 2006 to mid - February 2007, prior to Board
decisions in February 2007 on the following proposed changes to Special Education
system classes for the 2007 -2008 school year:
a) Closure of 4 Primary Assessment Centre (PAC) classes;
b) Closure of 2 SK/Language Learning Disability (LLD) classes;
C) Closure of 2 Junior LLD classes;
d) Closure of 2 elementary Special Support Unit (SSU) classes;
e) Closure of 7.5 secondary SSU classes;
f) Closure of 1 elementary Developmental Disabilities (DD) class;
g) Additional 0.5 teacher for secondary DD class;
h) Closure of 2 elementary General Learning Program (GLP) classes;
i) Closure of 1 elementary Physical Support Unit (PSU) class;
j) Reduction of 2 Educational Assistants (EAs) at Brookfield /Hillcrest
Aspergers classes; and
k) Addition of congregated Gifted class(es), if anticipated enrolment warrants.
ACTION: D. Paxton
Unofficial Board Summary 1 30 November 2006
Note: The motion incorporates the following amendments approved at the special meeting of the
Education Committee:
• Amendment by Trustee Moen to delete the 10th bullet: Closure of 1 secondary
Dear /Hard of Hearing (D /DH) class,
• Amendment by Trustee Moen to replace the bullet format of the recommendation
with an alphabetized format, i.e., parts a) through j);
• Amendment by Trustee Scott, sub - amended by Trustee Moen to replace "mid -
November" with "mid- December ",
• Amendment by Trustee Scott to replace "mid- January" with "mid- February ", and
• Amendment by Trustee Moen, sub - amended by Trustee Scott to add a Part K
Addition of congregated Gifted class(es), if anticipated enrolment warrants.
The motion incorporates the following friendly amendments:
Amendment by Trustee Primeau to insert "proposed" between "the following"
and "changes to ".
Note: The motion also includes the following friendly amendments to the consultation process,
Appendix A to report No. 06 -251:
Amendment by Trustee Spice to revise No. 4, timelines as follows:
Consultation Start Date
December 6, 2006
Preliminary Consultation End Date
January 18, 2007
Staff Report to SEAC
February 2, 2007
Staff Report to Education Committee
February 21, 2007
Staff Report to Board
February 27, 2007
Amendment by Trustee Spice to add "school councils" following "OCASC" to
the list on page 1 of the consultation plan regarding who will be consulted
Amendment by Trustee Graham, sub - amended by Trustee Moen, to add the
following to the list of information noted in No. 8 of the consultation plan:
• Rationale for proposed changes in terms of student outcomes and
achievement"
OTHER ITEMS:
At the 30 November 2006 Special Meeting of the Education Committee, which preceded the Special
Board meeting, the following requests for information were made:
Hal Grossner, SEAC Co- chair, asked staff to provide information on how the numbers of
classrooms noted in the recommendation for specialized classes for 2006 -2007 were calculated.
ACTION: D. Paxton
The meeting adjourned at 11:00 p.m.
Unofficial Board Summary 2 30 November 2006