HomeMy WebLinkAbout22.0 Notice of Motion to Require Masks for all Students, Trustee Blackburn
TO:Chair and Members DATE: 22 September 2020
of the Board
RE:Wearing of Masks for Students in Grades K-3
Trustee Blackburn has given notice of motion to amend a previously approved
substantive motion and intends to move as follows at the Board meeting on 22
September 2020:
WHEREAS on 25 August 2020, the Board approved a motion to strongly recommend
the wearing of masks at school for students in grades K-3 whenever reasonable;
WHEREAS, parents have expressed their concern that the wearing of masks for
younger students is not mandatory;
WHEREAS Section 12.14 of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board By-Laws
and Standing Rules allows for a “motion to amend something previously adopted
may be made only with due notice in writing, which should set out new
information or other reasons in support of the motion”;
AND WHEREAS, the City of Ottawa has seen a rise in the number of confirmed
COVID-19 and has now been declared in a second wave of COVID-19;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,
THAT the motion approved on 25 August 2020, viz.,THAT the Board strongly
recommends the wearing of masks at school for students in Grades K-3 whenever
reasonable, be amended to replace the words “strongly recommends the” with “requires
the mandatory” and deleting the words “whenever reasonable”, to read as follows:
THAT the Board requires the mandatory wearing of masks at school for students
in Grades K-3.
Camille Williams-Taylor Michèle Giroux
Director of Education and Executive Officer
Secretary of the Board Corporate Services
Signatures on this Notice of Motion confirm that the Notice was submitted in accordance
with Section 12.9 of the Board’s By-laws and Standing Rules.