The three trustees who will speak for Burlington families on the Halton Catholic District School Board, Allison McKenzie, Bernice Carvalho and Tim O'Brien, formally take office Tuesday, Nov. 17. The board's first meeting of the new term starts at 7 p.m., and before the night is out, trustees will choose who leads them.
The board runs the publicly funded Catholic elementary and high schools across Halton Region, including Burlington's. Its elected trustees set the budget and policies and hire the top staff. McKenzie represents Burlington Wards 1 and 2, Carvalho Wards 3 and 6, and O'Brien Wards 4 and 5.
The meeting opens with trustees making their declaration of allegiance and declaration of office before Justice J.M. Fragomeni, the formal promises that seat them on the board.
Then the board elects and installs a chair and a vice-chair. Marvin Duarte was chair as recently as the Nov. 3 groundbreaking for a new North Oakville school.
Each trustee gets a $9,000 honorarium for the new term under board policy. The chair receives an extra $1,000 and the vice-chair an extra $500.
The agenda also includes a resolution setting who can sign cheques and how the board borrows and invests money.
The meeting is in the board room of the Catholic Education Centre, 802 Drury Lane. It follows a Eucharistic celebration, a Mass, at St. Raphael's Parish at 5:30 p.m.
Before then, the board holds a special meeting in the same Drury Lane board room on Friday, Nov. 13.
