MOOSE JAW — Prairie Â鶹´«Ã½AV School Division (PSSD) has reappointed 11 directors to a committee that manages a bursary fund carried over from the former Moose Jaw school division.
During their December board meeting, trustees voted to have Jeff Feeley, Mary Jukes, Al Kessler, Aline Kirk, Pam Ludwar, Doreen Majeran, Darcy Dumont, Amanda Olson, George Patterson, Ron Purdy and Greg Veillard serve on the Moose Jaw School District No. 1 Bursary Fund Inc. for 2025.
According to a board report, the fund is a separate legal entity that the former Moose Jaw School Division No. 1 established to collect and invest money donated to provide scholarships to deserving students. PSSD’s board of education is now the sole member of the fund and must appoint directors.
The bursary fund has registered the business name Prairie Â鶹´«Ã½AV Schools Bursary Fund so it can be seen as more than just a City of Moose Jaw fund. The money held in trust by the school division for scholarships has been transferred to the bursary fund.
It is important to understand, said the report, that the transfer of funds does not change anything for any individual scholarship except where the money is housed and accounted for and the interest return it earns.
The report did not mention how much money is in the fund, although Purdy noted that Prairie Â鶹´«Ã½AV — through the account — distributes almost $80,000 annually to students attending a post-secondary institution.
Tenders
From Nov. 1 to 30, the division gave out two tenders:
- $285,000 to NH Elevators to modernize the elevator at A.E. Peacock Collegiate
- $137,000 to Powerland, which will supply a storage array for the division’s digital data; this will be a four-year support subscription, while the storage array will be in the division office basement
Purdy noted that it should take NH Elevators about 250 days to complete the modernization project and that it will likely be finished by next summer.
Trustee appointments
Board chairwoman Giselle Wilson appointed trustee Mary Jukes as Prairie Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s representative with the public section of the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) for the 2024-25 year.
Wilson also appointed trustee Brett Hagan as Prairie Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s representative on the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association (SSHSA) for the 2024-25 year.
Meanwhile, trustee Shawn Davidson was recently acclaimed as the president of the SSBA for two years — he had served as vice-president — while trustee Robert Bachmann was re-elected as the southern constituency representative on the executive. These nominations occurred during the SSBA’s fall general assembly from Dec. 1 to 3 in Regina.
The next PSSD board meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.
