School District Committees

Agenda items for the Regular Board Meetings are filtered through the Board’s standing committees – the Education Committee and the Business Committee – for review and/or recommendation to the Board.  During the school year, the Education and Business Committees meet monthly noting there are no Committee Meetings or Board Meetings scheduled in March.  For the 2024-25 school year, committee members include:

Education Committee

• Trustee Karen Jonkman – Chair
• Trustee Wayne Jones
• Trustee Julia Sundell
• Tracey MacMillan – Superintendent
• Julia Nieckarz – Director of Instruction, Learner Support
• Phillip Barron – Director of Instruction, Learning Services
• Vacant – Director of Instruction, Indigenous Education
• Additional Education Committee partners include: CMAA, CUPE, Local First Nations, DPAC, & CMTF 

Business Committee

• Trustee Ed Harrison – Chair
• Trustee Margaret Warcup
• Ginger Fuller – Secretary Treasurer
• Tracey MacMillan – Superintendent

Trustee School Liaison Assignments

Trustee School Liaison assignments, guided by the Board's Rational, Purpose & Parameters document, provide an opportunity for increased communication between trustees and school communities. Schools throughout the district are divided among trustees to ensure the trustees have knowledge of their electoral area schools and the programs and initiatives that are achieving the district’s goals. Assignments for 2024-25 can be found below.

Hazelton / Kitwanga

• Hazelton Secondary School – Wayne Jones
• Kitwanga Elementary School – Ed Harrison
• Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary School – Wayne Jones
• New Hazelton Elementary School – Wayne Jones

Kitimat

• Kildala Elementary School – Karen Jonkman
• Kitimat City High School – Karen Jonkman
• Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School – To be confirmed.
• Nechako Elementary School – To be confirmed.

Stewart

• Bear Valley School Trustee – Wayne Jones

Terrace / Thornhill

• Caledonia Secondary School – Margaret Warcup
• Cassie Hall Elementary School – Margaret Warcup
• Ecole Mountainview – Margaret Warcup
• Northwest Trades & Employment Training Centre – Karen Jonkman
• Parkside Secondary School – Ed Harrison
• Skeena Middle School – Ed Harrison
• Suwilaawks Community School – Margaret Warcup
• Thornhill Elementary School – Margaret Warcup
• Thornhill Primary School – Ed Harrison
• Uplands Elementary School – Ed Harrison