School may be out for the summer but the school board for School District No. 46 (SD46) held a special meeting to prepare for an upcoming trustee byelection.
On July 11, the board met virtually to update its trustee elections bylaw that outlines the procedures for elections.
At the last school board meeting, on June 14, board chair Amanda Amaral shared trustee Samantha Haines’ plans to resign from her position. Haines and her family moved out of province earlier this year. She had been acclaimed to her position as the Area 1 (Upper Coast) in the October general election.
According to the amended bylaw attached to the meeting agenda, changes include establishing mail ballot voting and voters’ lists. Since the upcoming byelection, likely to be held in the fall, will not be in conjunction with other local elections, the school board is authorizing limiting registration of voters to the time of voting and will be “effective only for the election for which the voting is being conducted at that time.”
The school district will conduct its own statutory advertising and polling stations, secretary treasurer Nicholas Weswick said in the meeting.
The bylaw also outlines advance voting opportunities, which will be held 10 and three days before general voting day, unless the school board is exempt by order of the Minister of Education.
The bylaw was given three readings and adopted in the same meeting.
