The trustee seat in Calgary’s wards 4 and seven for the Catholic college board will stay vacant till the subsequent municipal election.
Calgary Catholic College District board chair Cathie Williams knowledgeable mother and father Friday that the board of trustees “voted unanimously to not have a by-election and to proceed as a six-person board till the subsequent municipal election in 2025.”
The choice got here in a mid-week board assembly, after analysis into the price of internet hosting a by-election — $500,000 and as much as six months — and suggestions from principals and faculty board chairs.
Williams mentioned the prevailing trustees have “energy and willingness” to tackle extra colleges to cowl the 2 wards. She added that previously the CCSD board performed its enterprise as a six-member board.
The board often has seven trustees, with every representing varied wards, in addition to the communities of Chestermere, Cochrane and Airdrie.
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On 26 September 2022, Pamela Rath – then trustee for Ward 4 and Ward 7 – was discovered to be in breach of the council’s code of conduct and was censured.
On the time, she was faraway from the Alberta College Boards Affiliation and St. Mary’s College Neighborhood Advocacy Council.
Not one of the public paperwork element any of the allegations from the council’s deliberations apart from the formal censure.
In mid-December, Rath mentioned she resigned from her place on the CCSD board, citing “private and household issues.”
The subsequent municipal election, which incorporates the election of faculty board members and metropolis council members, is scheduled for 2025.
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