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 Trustee elections to be held on May 26, 2008. The date of the election was announced on April 11, 2008, by the Honourable Gerard Greenan, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development.
Lowell Croken, Chief Electoral Officer for Prince Edward Island, announced the call for nominations of candidates today. Official nomination papers are available from the Zone Returning Officers in each of the electoral zones, in each school district/board as well as at Access PEI locations. A list of the Zone Returning Officers for the school trustee elections was published in the daily newspapers today. Nominations will close at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 2008.
The breakdown of the 29 trustee positions to be filled by the election process are as follows:
The Eastern School District contains eleven electoral zones and one trustee will be elected in each zone.
The Western School Board contains nine electoral zones and one trustee will be elected in each zone.
The French Language School Board contains a total of six electoral zones across the province and will elect a total of nine trustees to the Board: three from zone 1 (the Évangéline Region); one each from zone 2 (West Prince), zone 3 (East Prince), and zone 4 (North Shore); two from zone 5 (Queens County to Eastern Prince Edward Island) and one from zone six (Souris area).
Under the Elections PEI Website at www.electionspei.ca, electors can find the Address Locator which enables and assists every elector to determine his or her correct school zone in which he or she resides and votes for the May 26 election. Assistance will also be available from the Zone Returning Officers, 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 Zone Returning Officer in each electoral zone.