MINUTES
October 17, 2012
School Board Office
Chair: Stephanie Longstaff, SPEAC President
Minutes: Michelle Winsor, SPEAC Secretary
Motions
1. Meeting Called to order 7:03pm
Let the record show that there is quorum present.
2. Presentation:
Belmont Recycling-Caitlyn Parish, Molly McDowell
 Started 2 years ago, Pacific Mobile Depot started in 2006Belmont modeled their recycle program after Reynolds
Secondary-have bins in every class for foils, soft plastics etc.Composting arrived this last year, students and teachers empty
bins into bigger bins in each section of the school, Belmont
has hot composting so any food related item can be
composted, only science labs now have garbage cansBelmont maintains program by education for students,
leadership students sort the bins
Dave Lockyer with Patrick May (project design) and Jim
Alkins (project advisor)
 meeting with department heads tonight and tomorrow
morning with Student leadership group at Belmont-the
committee has included curriculum coordinators in meetings
to provide help-collaborative communities is a focus of this
committee for the new schools – trying to add ‘flexible
spaces’ with in the schools which means teachers and students
need to be able to work with those parameters-by the end of
December the committee hopes to be able to hand in their
statement of requirement
 Royal Bay School- potential Student enrolment 1200 but
province is limiting numbers to 800, Glen Lake School enrolment numbers to 1200
 Royal Bay and Glen Lake may start breaking ground at the
same time
3. Approval of the Agenda
 Additions:
4. Approval of September Minutes
 Corrections:
(Colwood/Hans Helgensen )
Carried
(Happy Valley/ Dunsmuir )
Carried
1 Final
Action
8. Treasurer’s Report
 General Account Balance: $9477.13
 Gaming Account Balance:
Monies not yet received from Secretary Treasurer (District), gaming
money has been received
9. President’s Report
 CSH-committee hasn’t been able to meet yet
 VIPC Ticket Giveaway-already reported
 Parent Pamphlet-haven’t met yet
 Stephanie needs help from others to take some of the committee
work from her- let her know if you can help
 Darren Laur-SPEAC put a motion forth to support schools who
would like to bring Darren into the school for his parent night
and student presentation during the 2012/2013 school year–
SPEAC will figure out the details concerning paying their
portion of the monies
 VIPC-flyers ready to be handed out-coupons will be handed out
in the next week
11. Committee Report
a. Theatre Use-various groups attended and broke into sub
committees-discussed things such as rates, bookings, priority of
use, etc.
b. Volunteer Policy-will get it to Standing education by new year
c. Lice- moving ahead
d. Emerg Prep-next meeting Nov 6, 2012-committee is wanting
to work on consistency between schools
e. School Calendar-Next meeting Nov. 13, 2012 at 1pm-the
committee is investigating different models used by other
districts to see what that works for them
12. New Business
a. Agriculture in the Classroom-Classes can apply for different
programs to grow plants inside the classroom- SPEAC asked
parents to go back to their schools and see if there is an interest
within the schools for a program such as this
Next meeting will be held at
David Cameron on November 21, 2012, @ 7pm
Meeting adjourned at 9:36pm
(Hans Helgensen/ Dunsmuir)
2 Final
Carried