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Student Accommodation Review - 2010-11
The Student Accommodation Reviews for the Kincardine/Port Elgin Area and Hanover/Chesley Area have been completed with final recommendations approved by the Board of Trustees.
Please click on the links below for all information relating to the Accommodation Reviews in both areas.
At a regular meeting of the Board held on October 4, 2011, the Board of Trustees received a report outlining the financial considerations of the proposed options for the Student Accommodation Reviews in Chesley/Hanover area and Kincardine/Port Elgin area.
Please click here to read the full report.
At a regular meeting of the Board held on June 7, 2011, the Board of Trustees received the final reports of the Kincardine/Port Elgin and Hanover/Chesley Accommodation Review Committees. The receipt of these reports commences a 60 day notice period, following which the Board will make its final decision at a regular meeting of the Board on October18, 2011.
Please click on the links below to view the final reports for the areas under review.
The following recommendations were approved by the Board:
"That Bluewater District School Board commence an Accommodation Review in the 2010-11 school year on the following schools: Hanover Heights Community School, Dawnview Public School, John Diefenbaker Secondary School, Chesley District High School and Kinghurst Community School.
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That Bluewater District School Board commence an Accommodation Review in the 2010-11 school year on the following schools: Elgin Market Public School, Huron Heights Public School, Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School, Kincardine District Secondary School and Saugeen District Secondary School."
Qualifying Criteria for the Commencement of an Accommodation Review Process:
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School loading capacity reaches less than 80% of the Ministry of Education loading and Appendix C of the Grant For Student Needs Calculation, including top up and rural funding, do not meet school operations expenditure requirements.(School Operations Grant is defined as the grant to provide resources for Plant Operations and Maintenance) |
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School loading capacity is in excess of 120% of Ministry of Education Loading over a five year enrolment forecast period. |
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School loading within a group of schools, that is reasonably accessible to each other, reaches less than 80% of the Ministry of Education loading and Appendix C of the Student Needs Grant Calculation, including top up and rural funding, do not meet school operations expenditure requirements.(School Operations Grant is defined as the grant to provide resources for Plant Operations.) |
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School loading capacity within a group of schools that is reasonably accessible to each other is in excess of 120%, over a five year enrolment forecast period. |
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Enrolment conditions or accommodation design are such that required program conditions cannot be met. |
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Health or safety conditions of the building are such that students or staff would not have a healthy, safe, learning or working environment. |
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Age and/or condition of the building is such that the cost of renovations and alterations may be inappropriate in relation to program benefits. Within the study window these schools would normally fall within the “Prohibitive to Repair Category “as defined by the Ministry of Education. |
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Five-year enrolment forecasts indicate that portable accommodation at the school site will extend beyond five years. |
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For any other reason upon the recommendation of the Director of Education. (Examples of this include, but would not be limited to, the following: health, safety or environmental conditions affecting the immediate area of the school, unforeseen changes in provincial funding, request from the community, etc.) |
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The summary document Pupil Accommodation Process outlines the process involved in a student accommodation review. Board Policy BP3101-D is the official document and will prevail in all circumstances and scenarios.
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