Meet the candidates for school board trustee in Ottawa's municipal election

Some Elections Ottawa boxes are seen in this undated file image. (CTV News Ottawa)

When Ottawa voters head to the polls on Oct. 24 to vote for mayor and councillor, they will also be marking the ballot for a school board trustee.

All electors will vote for one school board trustee for either the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, Ottawa Catholic School Board, the Conseil des ecoles catholiques du Centre-Est or the Conseil des ecoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario.

Each board has trustees who are elected to serve a four-year term, and will vote on all issues affecting the school board, including the multi-million dollar budgets.

"A trustee's role is to maintain a focus on student achievement, well-being and equity and to participate in making decisions that benefit the board's entire jurisdiction while representing the interests of their constituents," says the Ontario Public School Board Association on its website.

The Ottawa Carleton District School Board says under the Education Act, trustees are mandated to:

• Promote student achievement and well-being
• Deliver effective and appropriate educational programs
• Develop, maintain and monitor effectiveness of school board policies
• Develop, communicate and review annually a Strategic Plan
• Monitor the performance of the Director of Education
• Practice responsible stewardship of school board resources

Required Qualifications

The Ontario Public School Board Association says a person is qualified to be elected as a school board trustee if the person is qualified to vote in a school board election and is a resident of the school board district.

Qualifications include:

• Must be a Canadian citizen
• Must be a resident of the board area
• At least 18 years of age

The Ottawa Carleton District School Board says candidates for trustees must be a public school tax supporter.  The Ottawa Catholic School Board says candidates must be Roman Catholic and a supporter of the board.

Candidates for the CECCE and CEPEO must be a taxpayer of the school board, and your first language is French.

Trustee honoraria

The Ontario Public School Board Association says the honorarium for school board trustees ranges from $7,500 to $29,500.

The Ottawa Carleton District School Board says effective Dec. 1, 2021, the trustee honoraria is $16,743 for trustees, $21,102 for the vice chair and $25,461 for the board chair.

The Ottawa Catholic School Board says the honoraria is $13,721 for trustees, $17,338 for the vice chair and $20,955 for the board chair.

Meet the Candidates for Trustee 

OTTAWA CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD

Zone 1

• Mardi de Kemp
• Jeff Darwin
• Scott Phelan

Zone 2

• Sandra Moore
• Alex Sithole

Zone 3

• Brian Coburn
• Marguerite Gravelle
• Paul Safi

Zone 4

• Greg Hopkins
• Spencer Warren
• Nicolas Caravaggio

Zone 5

• Joanne MacEwan
• Marc Belisle

Zone 6

• Eugene Milito
• Glen Armstrong
• Melissa Fraser-Arnott
• Patrick Suwalski

Zone 7

• Jeremy Wittet
• Danny Arrais

Zone 8

• Mark D. Mullan
• Christopher Andrew John Kelly

Zone 9

• Shelley Lawrence
• Guillermo Fernandez
• Jenny Rivera

Zone 10

• Cindy Desclouds-Simpson
• Cameron Bonesso

OTTAWA CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD

Zone 1

• Gananatha Subrahmanyam
• Jonathon Salinas
• Lynn Scott

Zone 2

• Ashley Darling
• Alex Rochman
• Alastair Luft
• Alysha Aziz
• Michael Edwards
• Thomas DeGroot

Zone 3

• Donna Blackburn
• Patricia Kmiec
• Natalie Rowe

Zone 4

• Suzanne Nash
• Kevin Wright
• Rasha Alnaqeeb

Zone 5

• Steven Warren
• Amanda Presley
• Gemma Nicholson

Zone 6

• Keith de Silvia-Legault
• Lyra Evans
• Ryan Ward
• Shannon Boschy
• Anthony Hope
• Jennifer Moroziuk

Zone 7

• Jennifer Jennekens
• Maria Inam Khan

Zone 8

• Shannon Kramer
• Donna Dickson
• Chanel Pfahl

Zone 9

• Jessie-Lee Wallace
• Nili Kaplan-Myrth
• Josh Rachlis

Zone 10

• Justine Bell
• John Bitzan

Zone 11

• Matthew Lee
• Mamata Dutta
• Ryan St-Jean
• Maher Jebara

Zone 12

• Sandra Griffith-Bonaparte
• Peter Heyck
• Cathryne Milburn

CONSEIL DES ECOLES CATHOLIQUES DU CENTRE-EST

Zone 4

• Jolène Savoie-Day (acclaimed)

Zone 5

• Chad Mariage
• Claude Lalonde

Zone 6

• Franklin Epape
• Denis Forget

Zone 7

• Robert Rainboth (acclaimed)

Zone 8

• Dan Boudria (acclaimed)

Zone 9

• Johanne Lacombe (acclaimed)

Zone 10

• Léo Cardinal
• Monique Briand

Zone 11

• André Thibodeau (acclaimed)

CONSEIL DES ECOLES PUBLIQUES DE L'EST DE L'ONTARIO

Zone 6

• Marc Roy (acclaimed)

Zone 7

• Nenette Ntema-Mbudi
• Philippe Landry

Zone 8

• Denis Labrèche
• Annila Tharakan

Zone 9

• Marielle Godbout
• Joël Beddows
• Mahdi Djama Aouled

Zone 10

• Sonia Boudreault
• Warsama Aden
• Joseph-Alphonse André

Zone 11

• Jacinthe Marcil (acclaimed)

Zone 12

• Samia Ouled Ali (acclaimed)