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Revised (Nov 20 2008)
Trustee Workload - Example 1
Roberta Hall, vice-chair, Rocky Mountain Board of Education
In addition to her work as a school trustee, Roberta also has a son in Grade 10, runs a window-coverings store and drapery workshop, and volunteers with her church. Living in a rural district, she has to contend with extensive travel time to meetings and events. The board office is an hour’s drive away. Even though considerable time is spent travelling, Roberta said, “We are very efficient at car-pooling and I find that it is great time to talk with my fellow trustees about different issues and things going on in our district.”
Even so, she said, there’s never enough time to do all the school visits she would like. Here’s what her spring looked like.
March 5 to 6: Two-day meeting, held at a hotel, to allow board members, senior staff and reps from the district’s partner groups to put together a plan for the next five years. Roberta arrived at the hotel the night before so that she was ready to begin work first thing in the morning
March 10: Information meeting regarding the Intensive Core French Program being held in her liaison school
March 11: Board meeting in Golden, an hour’s drive from home
March 31: Policy Committee and Zone Trustee Meeting
April 2 to 6: BCSTA annual general meeting. (Drive three hours to Calgary to catch the plane to Vancouver for the AGM. Very busy for all trustees while the conference was underway.) Fly to Calgary and drive back
April 8: Board meeting in Kimberly (a 1.5-hour drive)
April 12: Day-long board planning session
There are usually two Parent Advisory Council (PAC) meetings a month as well but they were postponed until after the spring break.
Much time is also spent reading materials, answering e-mails, preparing for meetings, responding in a timely fashion to calls about concerns, and attending functions where students are participating.
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Trustee workloads two examples
