Bill 47 explained in plain English
School Boards Property and Development Transparency Act, 2018
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 3rd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 47, the School Boards Property and Development Transparency Act, 2018, enhances transparency by requiring school boards to publicly disclose details of school site purchases and accommodation agreements, and to publish construction progress reports for funded facilities.
This bill, called the School Boards Property and Development Transparency Act, 2018, makes changes to the Education Act in Ontario. It aims to increase transparency by requiring school boards to publicly disclose information about their agreements for purchasing school sites and for providing accommodation for students on school sites. It also adds a condition to grants for facility construction, requiring school boards to provide public progress reports.
- Requires school boards to notify the Minister of Education and the public within two business days of entering into an agreement to purchase a school site.
- Specifies the details that must be included in the public notice for a school site purchase agreement, such as parties involved, price, conditions, reasons for the agreement, and intended uses.
- Requires school boards to notify the Minister and the public within two business days of any changes to a school site purchase agreement.
- Requires school boards to provide public notice within two business days when applying to the Minister for approval to negotiate accommodation for students on a school site not exclusively used by the board.
- Requires school boards to provide public notice of proposed agreements for student accommodation on school sites, including details of the proposed agreement.
- Requires school boards to provide public notice within two business days of entering into a final or conditional agreement for student accommodation after ministerial approval.
- Requires school boards to notify the Minister and the public within two business days of any changes to an agreement for student accommodation.
- Requires school boards to prepare and make public, on their website and in other prescribed ways, progress reports for facility construction projects that receive grants.
- Specifies that facility construction progress reports must be posted on or before the first anniversary of the grant and at least every six months thereafter.
- Requires school boards to submit facility construction progress reports to the Minister and the relevant municipality.
- States that the requirements for transparency in school site purchases and accommodation agreements apply regardless of the funding source, including education development charges or accumulated surplus.
- School boards in Ontario
- Minister of Education
- The public
- Municipalities in Ontario
- School boards must provide public notice of school site purchase agreements and any changes to them within two business days.
- School boards must provide specific details in public notices for school site purchase agreements.
- School boards must provide public notice of applications to negotiate student accommodation and proposed or finalized agreements within two business days.
- School boards must provide specific details in public notices for student accommodation agreements.
- School boards must prepare and publish progress reports for funded facility construction projects.
- School boards must submit facility construction progress reports to the Minister and municipality.
- The Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor.
- Transparency requirements apply to school site purchases and accommodation agreements funded by money from the Legislature, education development charges, or accumulated surplus.
- The specific 'other manner' in which notices must be made available to the public is not detailed in the bill and may be prescribed by regulation.
- The specific 'other information' that may be required in notices is not detailed in the bill and may be prescribed by regulation.
- The date this Act comes into force is not specified and will be proclaimed by the Lieutenant Governor.
Adds new requirements for school boards regarding the public disclosure of information related to school site purchases and the provision of student accommodation.
Source: Section 195 and Section 196
Requires school boards to provide public notice of agreements for the purchase of school sites, including specific details about the agreement.
Source: Section 195 (3.1) to (3.5)
Introduces new public notification requirements for school boards concerning applications for approval to negotiate student accommodation and details of proposed or finalized accommodation agreements.
Source: Section 196 (2) to (10)
Adds a condition to grants for facility construction, requiring school boards to publicly report on construction progress and submit these reports to the Minister and municipality.
Source: Section 234 (1.2)
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