Expansion of the Definition of a School Board Employee

That BCCPAC request that the Ministry of Education expand, for the purposes of defining eligibility for Trustee elections, the definition of School Board employees to include people who work in schools and receive their salary indirectly from the School Board. When the Board of Trustees decides and provides the funding to outside agencies to pay for the employee’s salary this creates the equivalent conflict of interest as with regular employees. The regulations that require regular Board employees to take a leave of absence during their campaign for the position of Trustee and to resign if subsequently elected, should also apply to those persons who receive their salary indirectly from the School District in which they are running.