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A g e n d a Board Meeting – Public Session Anna DeBartolo Chair Tuesday, June 3, 2014 (Vaughan) Board Room – 8:00 p.m. Joel Hertz Vice-Chair Pages (Vaughan) 1. Roll Call Peter Adams-Luchowski 2. Approval of Agenda (Aurora & King) 3. Declaration of Conflict of Interest Loralea Carruthers (East Gwillimbury & Whitchurch-Stouffville) 4. Report from the Board Meeting – Private Session, June 3, 2014 Carol Chan (Richmond Hill) 5. Student Trustee Report – Sutina Chou and Pai Liu Sutina Chou 6. Recognition of 2013-2014 Student Trustees – (Student Trustee) Sutina Chou and Pai Liu Nancy Elgie 7. Induction of 2014-2015 Student Trustees – (Georgina) Harii Mahesh and Daniel Roytman Susan Geller (Markham) 8. Director’s Information Report Diane Giangrande 9. APPLAUSE! 1-2 (Richmond Hill) 10. Core Service Delivery Report – Pai Liu Corporate and Community Services (Student Trustee) Director of Education Ken Thurston Juanita Nathan Associate Director of Education, Corporate and School (Markham) Services Margaret Roberts Superintendent of Schools – Operations and School Allan Tam Community Services Allan Hoyle (Markham) Senior Manager, Plant Services Jerry Stoangi Martin Van Beek Senior Manager, Administrative Services Jeff Fair (Newmarket) Manager, Accommodation Planning Dawn Adams Ada Yeung 11. Ontario Public School Boards’ Association Report (Markham) 60 Wellington Street West, Box 40, Aurora Ontario L4G 3H2 (905) 727-3141 (905) 895-7216 (905) 722-3201 (416) 969-8131 Fax: (905) 727-1931 www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca A g e n d a York Region District School Board Pages Page 2 12. Special Announcements 13. Approval of Minutes of the May 6, 2014 Board Meeting, 3-34 May 15, 2014 Education Development Charge Policy Review Meeting, May 15, 2014 Education Development Charge Successor By-Law Meeting and May 27, 2014 Special Board Meeting 14. Routine (*) and Non-Routine Presentation of Minutes and Reports of Board Committees: (a) Budget Committee Minutes, 35-45 Monday, April 28, 2014 (*) (b) Policy and By-Law Committee Minutes, 46-145 Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Non-Routine Recommendations #1 and 2 (c) Property Management Committee Minutes, 146-163 Tuesday, May 20, 2014 (*) (d) Board Standing Committee Minutes, 164-168 Tuesday, May 20, 2014 (*) (e) Chair’s Committee Minutes, 169-239 Monday, May 26, 2014 Non-Routine Recommendation #3 (f) Budget Committee Minutes. 240-245 Monday, May 26, 2014 Non-Routine Recommendation #4 Approval of the 2014-2015 Budget 15. Routine (*) Acceptance of Advisory Committee Minutes and Non-Routine Recommendations Requiring Board Approval: (a) Special Education Advisory Committee Minutes, 246-254 Thursday, May 1, 2014 (*) (b) Parent, Family and Community Engagement 255-261 Advisory Committee Minutes, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 (*) Ontario Public School 16. Meetings and Events (*) 262 17. Adjournment Applause! June 2014 Applause! is the monthly recognition of significant achievements and contributions by staff, students and community partners at a York Region District School Board Public Board Meeting. Recognition of achievements is based on alignment with the organizational goals outlined by the Trustees’ Multi-Year Plan in combination with the criteria set out in Staff Awards and Student Awards policies. Spread the Net Student Challenge Winners Bayview Secondary School students, with the support of their teacher advisor, participated in Rick Mercer’s Spread the Net Student Challenge. As part of the challenge, educational communities across the country fundraised to purchase bed nets for countries impacted by malaria. Bayview Secondary School contributed the most of any school across Canada with a donation of $20,666. For many years, Bayview Secondary School students have supported eight children overseas through the Child Adoption Program (CAP). During CAP Week, homerooms can choose to create their own fundraising initiatives. This year, the students decided to organize henna tattoos, palm readings, Polaroid pictures and a variety of food and drink sales. Through their talent show and the CAP week fundraising, they raised $20,666 and were featured on the CBC’s Mercer Report on April 1, 2014. The CAP students are Eileen Kao, Cindy Kao, Jason Baek, Michael Sun, Dillan Mehta, Quincy Leung, Anita Hagh, Wendy Soung Chen and Katherine Lu. The CAP teacher advisor is Sandra Thomas. York Regional Police Chief for a Day Grade five student Rami Huijbregts-Aoudeh from Buttonville Public School is the winner of the annual Chief-for-a-day contest. Rami delivered his winning essay before a panel of judges on the topic: How does York Regional Police serve, protect and help victims of crime? Members of the media were invited to Rami’s swearing-in ceremony as he took the helm from Chief Eric Jolliffe and became responsible for the management of more than 1,400 sworn officers. Rami wore a specially-made Chief of Police uniform when he was sworn in. Once in command, Rami’s first order of business was the public launch of the York Regional Police Ceremonial Mounted Unit. Rami then toured a variety of units within York Regional Police and participated in various activities, including a tour of the R.I.D.E. truck, the chance to conduct traffic enforcement, a demonstration from the Canine Unit, a tour of the Emergency Response Unit’s armoured truck, a tour of the Forensic Identification Unit and the chance to participate in a polygraph test. On May 13, he presented his essay to more than 1,000 guests at the 22nd Annual Police Appreciation Night. Applause! June 2014 Police Appreciation Night Soloist Sabrina Shallop is a Grade 12 vocal arts student at Alexander Mackenzie High School. On May 13, she had the honour of participating in York Regional Police's Police Appreciation Night to an audience of community dignitaries, business and education leaders. Sabrina performed "Lean on Me', "'O Canada" and "God Save the Queen". Sabrina has had lead roles in three Alexander Mackenzie High School musical theatre productions which were performed at the Richmond Hill Theatre for the Performing Arts. She performs with the school's concert choir and chamber choir and has been asked to perform at the Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies. Sabrina is planning to pursue musical theatre studies in post-secondary education. VEX Robotics World Championship The students on the Sir William Mulock Ravens Robotics Team have proudly represented their school at a series of VEX Robotics competitions throughout the year. The competition requires students to design, build, program and drive a robot to complete a particular task in competition with another team’s robot. Through their engineering, programming and problem solving skills, they achieved a standing of 1st in Ontario and 2nd in Canada. This enabled them to qualify two robots for the world championship in Anaheim, California. Over 10,000 teams competed worldwide for this honour, but only 400 qualified. Despite having their toolkit temporarily lost by the airline, the Ravens managed to earn a rank of 4th in the world in the “Programming Skills” portion of the competition. The team, which is led by teacher Joseph Siconolfi, includes Zahid Mirza, Iqbal Alibhai, Maxim Tchervatiouk, Venus Muongsouvanh, Jenny Cao, Monika Danh, Francesca Madan, James Harris, Anthony Chanthalyma, Craig Lalumiere, Nathan Chow, Aidan Casey, Riley Sims, Bernie Lu and Noah Klady. YORK REGION DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD BOARD MEETING MINUTES - PUBLIC SESSION MAY 6, 2014 The Board Meeting - Public Session of the York Region District School Board was held in the Board Room of the Education Centre, Aurora at 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 with Chair A. DeBartolo presiding and the following members present; Trustees P. Adams-Luchowski, L. Carruthers, C. Chan, N. Elgie, S. Geller, D. Giangrande, J. Hertz, J. Nathan, A. Tam (via audio conference), and A. Yeung. Also in attendance: Student Trustee P. Liu Regrets: Trustee M. Van Beek and Student Trustee S. Chou APPROVAL OF AGENDA (*)1. Moved by A. Yeung, seconded by C. Chan: That the agenda be approved as written. - Carried - DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST Chair A. DeBartolo asked any trustee who has a direct personal interest or direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any matter being discussed by the Board to state their conflict and the nature thereof. No conflicts were declared by trustees at this time. RISE AND REPORT – MAY 6, 2014 BOARD MEETING – PRIVATE SESSION (*)2. Moved by J. Hertz, seconded by L. Carruthers: 1) That the York Region District School Board receive for information and approve the recommendations contained in the minutes of the March 24, 2014 Audit Committee Meeting. 2) That the York Region District School Board receive for information and approve the recommendations contained in the minutes of the April 9, 2014 Joint Board Consortium Meeting. 3) That the York Region District School Board receive for information and approve the recommendations contained in the minutes of the April 23, 2014 Property Management Committee Meeting. BOARD MEETING MINUTES – PUBLIC SESSION PAGE 2 May 6, 2014 ____________________________________________________________________ 4) That the York Region District School Board receive for information and approve the recommendation contained in the staff report regarding an expenditure related to a property matter. 5) That the York Region District School Board approve the recommendations in the Human Resource Services staff report. 6) That the York Region District School Board receive the Student Discipline and Suspension Reports for information. 7) That the York Region