St. John Paull II Catholic School is one of the Grande Prairie area's newer schools

By Emily Keller

CITY COUNCIL

City Council appoints Regional School Sites Committee representative

Aug 14, 2019 | 12:32 PM

City Council appointed Councillor Dylan Bressey on Monday as the representative to the Regional School Sites Committee.

The Regional School Sites Committee aims to improve coordination between the school boards, the city and the development committee, says Grande Prairie Mayor Bill Given.

“The intent of the initiative is to coordinate and collaborate more among the city, the county, the public school board, the catholic school board, the Francophone school board and Peace-Wapiti school board, to ensure that all of those different organizations are working together in a coordinated manner to identify locations for future schools.”

Given also says in the past, the process had little direct coordination between all of the different groups and organizations.

“Historically the school site planning process has been that each school board would independently identify their needs and desires, and those would start to show up in city planning documents, and we have seen over the last while that the pressure for school districts to have school sites available, when there is money available to build a school, has been building.”

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He says that the City of Grande Prairie has been the site of the majority of schools in the area, and that the initiative’s intent will serve the surrounding community as well.

“I think all of us agree that we could serve the one taxpayer better by being more coordinated in the system and I think that is the intent of the initiative that will start later on this fall.”