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OTTAWA-CARLEiON
DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
11 September 2000
Report No. 00 -195 to the Board
Re: Information Package for Trustee Candidates
ORIGINATORS: Joan Melancon, Assistant Secretary of the Board
Maggie Melenhorst, Manager Communications and Information Services
Hyacinth Haddad, Communications Office
PURPOSE:
To provide for review an information package for trustee candidates in the November
2000 election.
BACKGROUND & STATUS:
2. Prior to the last election in November of 1997, The Local Education Improvement
Commission approved an information package for trustee candidates.
3. Shane Kennedy, Chief Returning Officer for the upcoming municipal elections, has
requested that staff provide relevant information on the OCDSB for trustee candidates.
(W This information package will be made available at the main Elections Office located
on Carling Avenue.
4. Communications and Board Services staff have put together a package containing the
following:
• Description and Map of newly revised Trustee Zones;
• List of Schools within new Trustee Zones;
• Policies with respect to Trustee Honoraria, Professional Development,
Constituency Communications & Support Services; Board Member Code of
Ethics and Conflict of Interest;
• The Board's Mission Statement, Guiding Principles and Strategic Plan (Draft),
and the recent publication Formula Facts,
• Brochures containing information on Board programs and services;
• Contacts at the Board, the Board's web site address and an invitation to review
Board Minutes in the Public Reading Room at the Administration Building,
5. Trustees have received the full information package and input is requested,
particularly with respect to any additional items that should be included.
James P. Grieve
Director of Education/
Secretary of the Board
Information Package for Trustee Candidates 11 September 2000