Education Amendment Act (Renewal and Maintenance of School Facilities), 2011 Caplan, David — Bill 154 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session)

Bill 154, 39-2

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Bill 154, Education Amendment Act (Renewal and Maintenance of School Facilities), 2011

Caplan, David

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Bill 154 2011

An Act to amend the Education Act to

allow boards to determine, levy and collect rates for the renewal and

maintenance of school facilities

Note:

This Act amends the Education

Act . For the legislative history of the Act, see the Table of

Consolidated Public Statutes – Detailed Legislative History at

www.e-Laws.gov.on.ca.

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

1. Subsection

234 (14) of the Education

Act is amended by striking out "and in Division F" in the portion

before the definition of "education funding".

(1) Subsection

257.16 (1) of the Act is amended by striking out "for its purposes" and

substituting "for the renewal and maintenance of a board's school facilities",

and by striking out "for the board's purposes".

(2) Subsection

257.16 (2) of the Act is amended by striking out "for its purposes" and

substituting "for the renewal and maintenance of a Roman Catholic board's

school facilities".

(3) Section

257.16 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsections:

Interpretation

(3) For the purposes of this section, the renewal and

maintenance of school facilities includes the following:

1. Work on school sites

that provides or is capable of providing pupil accommodation, including

additions or improvements to the school sites.

2. Work on school

buildings, fixtures in school buildings or fixtures on school properties, including

additions, alterations, renovations or major repairs to school buildings,

fixtures in school buildings or fixtures on school properties.

3. The installation of

equipment, fixtures or other things on school properties to supply school buildings

on the properties with water, sewer, septic, electrical, heating, cooling,

natural gas, telephone or cable services. The installation may include alterations,

replacements or major repairs to existing installations.

4. Changes to the level,

drainage or surface of school properties.

Financial

plan

(4) A board shall not determine rates or collect

subscriptions under this Division unless the board first submits a financial

plan to the Ministry in accordance with the regulations and posts the plan on

its website.

Limitation

on rates

(5) A board shall not determine rates of more than 5 per

cent of the total assessment for real property that is rateable as provided in

section 257.17.

Separate

account

(6) A board that raises any money under this Division

shall hold the money in a separate account of the board to use for the renewal

and maintenance of the board's school facilities.

Report

(7) A board that raises any money under this Division

shall, at the end of the board's fiscal year following the year in which the

money was raised, submit a report to the Minister specifying how the money was

used and shall post a copy of the report on its website.

Section

257.17 of the Act is amended by striking out "for a board's purposes" in the

portion before paragraph 1.

(1) Subsection

257.19 (1) of the Act is amended by striking out "for school purposes".

(2) Subsection

257.19 (2) of the Act is amended by striking out "for school purposes".

(1) Subsection

257.25 (1) of the Act is amended by striking out "school purpose".

(2) Subsection

257.25 (2) of the Act is amended by striking out "school purpose".

(3) Subsection

257.25 (4) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Definition

(4) In subsection (1),

"tax

ratio" means the ratio that the rate levied under this Division for each

property class prescribed under subsection (1) must be to the rate levied under

this Division for the residential property class.

6. Subsection

257.27 (1) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause:

(

e) respecting what is

to be included in a financial plan under subsection 257.16 (4).

7. Division F

Part IX (section 257.106) of the Act is repealed.

Commencement

8. This

Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

9. The

short title of this Act is the Education Amendment Act (Renewal and Maintenance of School Facilities),

2011 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The

Bill repeals Division F of

Part IX of the Education Act in order to allow school

boards to determine rates and collect subscriptions under Division C of

Part IX

of the Act. The Bill amends subsections 257.16 (1) and (2) to restrict the

purposes for which boards can determine rates and collect subscriptions to that

of renewal and maintenance of school facilities.

The

Bill also adds five new subsections to

section 257.16 of the Act. Subsection

257.16 (3) explains the meaning of renewal and maintenance of school

facilities. Subsection 257.16 (4) requires that, before a board raises any

money, the board shall submit a financial plan to the Ministry in accordance

with the regulations. Subsection 257.16 (5) imposes a limit on the rates

boards may determine. Subsection 257.16 (6) requires that any money raised for

the renewal and maintenance of school facilities be placed in a separate

account of the board. Subsection 257.16 (7) requires a board that raises money

under Division C to submit a report to the Minister specifying how the money

gets used and to post a copy of the report on the board's website.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

February 24, 2011

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

February 24, 2011

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 154

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Education Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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Collection	Ontario — Bills
Citation	Bill 154, 39-2
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	p39 s2 bill 154 html
Language	en
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Source	PROVINCIAL
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