Longer school board terms could make for more consistent long-term planning, according to representatives of the two local school divisions.
During last week’s Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention in Regina, Municipal Affairs Minister Jeremy Harrison announced the government’s intention to lengthen mayor, council and school board terms from three years to four years.
Amendments to the Local Government election Act will be introduced in the legislature this fall, with the intent that the new term lengths will come into effect with the 2012 municipal elections.
Prairie South School Division board of education chairman Ron Gleim told the Times-Herald longer council terms could be good, because they might allow for more consistent long-term planning.
However, he added if the voting public doesn’t like a particular school board and its agenda, then longer terms aren’t necessarily positive, because they keep that board in power longer.
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