Board News: January 28, 2020
January 28, 2020
The Regular Meeting of the Langley Board of Education is streamed live beginning at 7:00 pm. A link to the live-stream will be posted here in Board News.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties the Regular Meeting of the Langley Board of Education was unable to be recorded for the first hour. We are also unable to display the power point presentations. We apologize for the inconvenience. The video begins at the question period of the Secretary-Treasurer’s Reports. Staff will investigate to ensure it is fully operational by the next meeting.
Superintendent’s Reports
Superintendent’s Report – District Transitions Goal
Assistant Superintendents Woody Bradford and Mal Gill, along with Director of Instruction, Dawne Tomlinson presented on District Transition Goals, these are objectives to help students prepare themselves for their journey after secondary school. Bradford opened with the District’s target goal of increasing Langley’s six-year dogwood (including Evergreen) completion rate to 93% (in this case completion rate means graduation rate). The District’s 2018-2019 six-year completion rate is 89.7 which is slightly higher than the provincial rate which is 88.8. He recognized that completion is important but another goal is to develop educated citizens. He outlined a number of strategies schools have in their action plans to help students successfully transition. The presentation focused on the implementation of the re-designed curriculum and visual examples of Career Education Curriculum such as Trades programs and Capstone projects at the secondary school level.
Secretary-Treasurer’s Reports
Capital Projects Update 2019-2020
Secretary-Treasurer Brian Iseli provided an update on capital projects around the District. He gave an overview of capital funding project agreements and outlined budgets for Willoughby Secondary, Langley Secondary, and the upcoming South West Yorkson elementary school. The project budget for Willoughby Secondary (RE Mountain) is 58, 858, 213. He mentioned the school is open and under warranty period until September 9, 2020. In relation to Langley Secondary, the project budget is 24, 863, 086. He explained the reminder of the project is on schedule and expected to be completed by September 2020. The SW Yorkson project budget is 18, 825,440. This project is currently out for tender and closes at the end of January. A general contractor is expected to be on site in mid-February. He closed his presentation by showing a video outlining the architecture/design concept for the upcoming elementary school.
The video above starts during the question period portion of this report.