Trevor Barry for SD61 Trustee for Saanich (GVSD electoral area)

IN PROGRESS (web page under construction)

You can also read the "Trusty Trustee Trevor" page to learn more about me.

Policies

Music Education 

• Priority #1 - maintain instructional hours and ensure continuity and sustainable planning for middle school music
• Engage VCPAC on viable ways to leverage PAC fundraising efforts, crowdsourcing volunteer hours, but ensuring equity of opportunity across the district.
• Business Partnerships with not-for-profit organisations 
  • e.g. community group rehearsal space + coaching in return
  • e.g. leveraging the liability coverage of PAC activities to reduce insurance costs on community partners (e.g. private/group lessons)
• Greater exposure to higher-level music performances by lower-level schools e.g. (in-bound or out-bound field trips) as well as older student volunteer coaching and mentoring. 
• A new, larger seated theatre facility at Reynolds - ideally as a joint venture with the District of Saanich, re: Quadra McKenzie Centre community meeting and event space.

Climate literacy in classrooms

• encourage use of Climate Action Kits (newly created resources curated by Librarians) by multiple teachers back-to-back at the same school 
• followed up by classroom engagement by sustainability professionals/academics 
• use Aarav's Lambrick Climate Summit as a model across the district 

Climate Action (corporate)

• SD61's Climate Accountability Reporting, such as the provincially-legislated Carbon Neutral Action Reports, should be more accessible to the public, and used as resource material in the aforementioned climate action kits
• SD61 should better support (and seek support from) Saanich, Victoria and other climate and sustainability programs across the region (e.g. bike racks, bus shelters & waste diversion) including having the facilities portfolio (school buildings) not only participate in the CRD Benchmarking program, but also: 
  • SD61 should use their energy-management software to populate EnergyStar Portfolio Manager platform data-sharing,
  • allowing for annual public disclosure of performance metrics under via the "Building Benchmark BC" map tool,
  • and, eventually, real-time facility-by-facility consumption data
• These and related initiatives could provide insight into
  • Facility-by-facility accountability (e.g. ekWh/m2)
    • normalised for set-points due to facility rentals, etc.
    • normalised by FTE and other demand variables
  • pre- and post- major renovations 
• Organics Diversion: purposefully located receptacle bins for lower contamination (in spite of risk of lower participation).
• Transportation Demand (TDM) strategies
  • e.g. Work with lower-island athletic associations on travel schedules that mitigate vehicle reliance on higher-walkscore populations, simultaneously reducing outbound trips during afternoon peaks.
  • e.g. Parking management (e.g. PAC motivation enforcement) and as potential revenue stream opportunity
  • e.g. cash-in-lieu of free parking for staff 

Budget Transparency, Democratic Accountability

• Prepare a deliberate and intentional recruitment strategy and selection criteria for hiring the next Superintendent
• School District Budget (if not school budgets) should be provided line-by-line as open-source machine-readable CSV (spreadsheet) files for academic research and public scrutiny. Let sunshine be the best disinfectant.
• Standardise the practice of SBO staff providing information notes and reports to trustees and the public - akin to municipal governments - replete with Pros/Cons, Cost-Benefit analysis, trade-offs, cross-jurisdictional research, etc. Recommendations should be argued with accompanying evidence. 

AI/tech - draft ideas

• congruent with PM Carney?
  • Sovereign (buy Cdn, clean)
  • (Kids: avoid foreign threats)
  • Safe kids (Manitoba?)
  • Clean energy, water, co-gen
• AI policy - good as maths tool
  • Not as screen time, brain rewire
  • Yes as aid to unique learning needs

Other

• Mechanics vs. Computer programming
• Advocate to Prov
• … daylight time darkness
• Revenue via facility rentals
  • With freemium use for community groups with parent connexions
  • (Repeat: Paid Parking [Mgmt])
• Partnerships with Local Government
  • Facility and resource sharing
  • Transportation demand management, visionZero
  • Population and community planning vis-a-vis development, school asset capital planning (also with 3 ministries)