Catholic trustees grant themselves admin assistants

Trustees get sherpas

Trustees at the Toronto Catholic District School Board have voted to allow themselves administrative assistants, despite dissent from the chair and a directive from Ontario’s education minister to a sister school board to stop relying on the extra support.

The motion passed late Thursday night, following a closed-door discussion that some questioned, and comes in the wake of budget cuts that eliminated more than 40 special education teaching and educational assistant positions.

Board chair Mike Del Grande was one of two trustees who opposed allotting himself more assistance.

“I voted against it because in the days of making $5,000 a year as a trustee and working a full-time job, I didn’t have any constituency assistants, and I got along fine,” he said.  (more...)

Catholic trustees grant themselves admin assistants