Re-elect · Trustee, Ward 4
Proven
leadership.
I’m Chipalo Simunyola, your Louis Riel trustee since 2022, and I’m running again to keep Ward 4’s voice strong. I bring wide-ranging leadership and community experience to advocating for the needs of our whole community.
My commitment to you
Four things I keep
coming back to.
One
Community-centric leadership
Putting students first by creating safe, inclusive and supportive learning environments. Making decisions aimed at balance and true community needs.
Two
Fiscal responsibility
Managing resources wisely, with transparency and accountability.
Three
Student and staff wellness
Supporting the well-being of students, staff and families.
Four
Academic classroom success
High-quality teaching that prepares our kids to compete locally, nationally and internationally, regardless of race, background or circumstance.
Four years, in numbers
Showing up is
most of the job.
Trusteeship isn’t glamorous. It’s meetings, budget lines, school visits and a lot of email. Here’s what that looked like.
Before you vote
What does a school
trustee actually do?
Most people get three ballots on October 28 and only recognise the names on two of them. Here’s the third one, in plain language.
- Sets the budgetThe board approves how the division’s tax money is spent every year — staffing, infrastructure, transportation and the rest.
- Manages division policy complianceThe board sets division policy and holds the division to it — and to the provincial standards it has to meet.
- Decides catchments and capacityWhich school your child can attend, when a school gets capped, and which capital projects the division asks the province to fund.
- Answers to you, not to local special interest groupsTrustees are non-partisan and elected by ward. There’s no party whip. If you call your trustee, that is the whole chain of command.
The ask
Lend me
your front lawn.
School board races turn on a few hundred votes. A sign on your street tells your neighbours this election exists — and that does more than any ad I could buy.
Free. We put it up in September and take it away the week after the vote.
Or just tell one person