No by-election to fill vacant SRPSD trustee seat
The Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division (SRPSD) will operate as a nine-person board for the next three years, opting not to hold a by-election for their vacant urban trustee position.
Late last week, the division was granted permission by the Minister of Education to operate with four urban and five rural trustees until the next local election.
Due to budgetary constraints, director of education Robert Bratvold said the board decided not to hold a costly election.
“The rationale was an election is an expensive endeavour and if we do not need to have that expense and have those dollars in the classroom, we would rather do that,” Bratvold said.