Members of the Flin Flon School Division’s board have picked their committee duties for the upcoming school year.
Murray Skeavington will serve for the next year as the chair of the division’s board of trustees, having been the only candidate to put their name forward for the job. Former chair Amy Sapergia Green will continue to serve as the board’s vice chair.
Trustees selected committee appointments on a first-come, first-serve basis after drawing numbers out of a hat. Like a fantasy football draft, the trustees selected appointments in a snake draft fashion, with Skeavington getting both the seventh and eighth selections before the appointments went through the numbers in descending order.
Trustee Tim Davis went first – he will sit on the Workplace Safety and Health committee, as well as the traffic committee with the City of Flin Flon.
“We go through schools and mark down health and safety needs to be fixed, then we meet and fix whatever needs to be fixed so schools are safe for kids and employees,” said Davis.
“For traffic, you go and meet with the City and you tell them any concerns the division has for roads or signing and they take that under advisement. It’s not a very long meeting – you just go, ‘We’ve got this concern and this concern.’”
Three trustees – Jill Akkerman, Skeavington and Leslie Fernandes – will sit on the committee responsible for negotiations with the local chapter of the Manitoba Teacher’s Society (MTS), while three spots on the board’s negotiation committee with the United Steelworkers Local 7106 were filled by Ebony Trubiak, Sapergia Green and Akkerman.
Leslie Power will be the board’s sole representative on the skatepark committee and the sole representative on the suspensions and disciplinary committee. The first committee is a joint committee with the City about the skatepark facility located near Many Faces Education Centre.
“For the suspensions committee, whenever there’s a suspension, they have to have a meeting to determine when they can come back to school,” said Sapergia Green, adding school staff are also involved with the committee.
Both Fernandes and Sapergia Green will serve as the division’s representatives on the accessibility committee.
“We have staff, board members and some parents and we meet to discuss what’s been done and what needs to be done next. There’s different stages to the accessibility plan,” said Fernandes.
Skeavington will represent the board with the Flin Flon and District Chamber of Commerce, attending the business organization’s monthly meetings.
