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 Boards during School Board elections to be held on May 17, 1999. The date of the election was announced on January 12, 1999 by the Honourable Chester Gillan, 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. 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, April 30, 1999.
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).
A description of each electoral zone in the three School Districts will be published in the Prince Edward Island daily. These descriptions will provide further details of the boundary lines of each of the electoral districts to assist voters in recognizing the zone in which they reside and vote in on 17 May.
Information concerning nominations, eligibility of proposed trustees and nomination papers are available from the Returning Officer in each electoral zone.