Speaking at a Board Meeting

There are several ways you can speak at a Board Meeting:

Speaking about a specific item on the agenda

Pre-registration opens once the meeting agenda is posted to the Division’s website (typically by end of day Thursday before the Board meeting). If you would like to speak to the Board about a specific item on the meeting agenda, you must register with the Board office by noon the business day before the meeting (i.e., noon on Monday for a Tuesday Board meeting). If the Monday before the Tuesday Board meeting is a statutory holiday, you must register by noon the Friday before.

Call 780-429-8443 to register.

Registering to speak

The public and staff group representatives are welcome to speak about educational issues at the second board meeting of the month at 4:00 p.m.

Pre-registration opens once the meeting agenda is posted to the Division’s website (typically by end of day Thursday before the Board meeting). If you would like to speak to the Board about an educational issue, you must register with the Board office by noon the business day before the meeting (i.e., noon on Monday for a Tuesday Board meeting). If the Monday before the Tuesday Board meeting is a statutory holiday, you must register by noon the Friday before.

Call 780-429-8443 to register.

Delegations and presentations to the Board

Call 780-429-8443 to ask about presenting as a delegation or presenting a petition to the Board.

Guidelines for speakers

Speakers must attend the Board meeting in person.
- If the meeting is held online, speakers must declare when registering that they are at least one of the following:
  - a resident of Edmonton
  - a parent of a Division student
  - a Division staff member
Comments must be kept to a maximum of three minutes and be addressed to the Board Chair.
Attendees are not permitted to bring props or signs to a Board meeting.
The Board Chair has full authority to maintain decorum and order of the meeting, including interrupting any speaker who makes critical statements about particular individuals or groups of people, whether named or identifiable by the context, ruling the speaker out of order and terminating the speaker's privilege to address the Board of Trustees.
Any individual or group may speak on an issue to a maximum of four times per school year.

Privacy

Board meetings are audio recorded as well as webcast live. Audio recordings of Board meetings will be retained for five years. Media may also attend these meetings and you may appear in media coverage.

Board meeting schedule

Board meetings are held at 2:00 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month (unless otherwise posted). Unless otherwise noted, these public meetings are held in:

McCauley Chambers
2nd floor at the Centre for Education
One Kingsway

VIEW: Schedule of upcoming public board meetings.