The following are candidates' responses to the following questions: Incumbents only: With School District 43's recent difficulties, which resulted in $13.4 million in cost cutting, and a forensic audit noting lack of control and monitoring resulted in a deficit in 2012/'13, why should anyone vote for you, an incumbent who was on the board when it happened? To non-incumbents only: If you are elected, what issue would you bring to the board's attention? To all: What is your reason for running for school trustee? Also: Do you think there is enough transparency about what goes on in the school district? If not, how would you change it?
Tutor, lives in Port Moody
Expertise to offer board: advocacy
Endorsement: none.
Why run: "The main reason for running for school trustee is the fact that I have strong communication skills and a trustee needs to effectively lobby the province for funding."
What issue: "The need to have serious relationships building with all the stakeholders in education, there has to be a move away from the politics of division."
Transparency: "From what I've heard from constituents in the city, they're not being informed and welcomed in the decision process As a trustee, I would make it my business to encourage people to take an active role in how taxpayers' dollars are spent."
