Nominations for candidates to offer for election as trustees for the Eastern School District, Western School Board and the French Language School Board are now being accepted.
A total of 29 trustees will be elected to the three School District/Boards during School Board elections to be held on May 27, 2002. The date of the election was announced on April 5, 2002 by the Honourable Jeffrey E. Lantz, Minister of Education.
M. H. Wigginton, Chief Electoral Officer for Prince Edward Island, announced the call for nominations of candidates today. Official nomination papers are available from the Returning Officers in each of the electoral zones in each school district as well as Access PEI locations. A list of the Returning Officers for the school board elections will be published in the daily newspapers of the province in the next few days. Nominations will close at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, May 10, 2002.
The breakdown of the 29 trustee positions to be filled by the election process are as follows:
- the Eastern School District contains eleven zones (including the City of Charlottetown) and one trustee will be elected in each zone.
- the Western School Board contains nine electoral zones, including the (City of Summerside) and one trustee will be elected in each zone.
- the French Language School Board contains a total of five electoral zones across the province and will elect a total of nine trustees to the Board; four from zone 1 (the Evangeline Region); one each from zone 2 (West Prince), zone 3 (East Prince), and zone 4 (North Shore), along with two trustees from zone 5 (Eastern Prince Edward Island including the City of Charlottetown).
Under the Elections PEI Website at www.gov.pe.ca/election you can find the Address Locator which enables and assists every elector to determine his/her correct school zone in which he/she resides and votes for the 27 May election. Assistance will also be available from the Elections PEI Office, the PEI Home and School Association and schools.
Information concerning nominations, eligibility of proposed trustees and nomination papers are available from the Returning Officer in each electoral zone.