Markham FilCan Trustee Elected Vice Chair at York Catholic School Board

By Mogi Mogado
Ontario-Canada
December 5, 2014



In a historic vote a FilCan School Trustee has become the first Vice Chair from a cultural minority at the York Catholic District School Board in Ontario.

Trustee Marlene Mogado was her peers' unanimous choice for the office at the YCDSB inaugural meeting held at the Catholic Education Centre in Aurora on December 2, 2014.

Having won her third term at the Ontario local elections in October, Marlene Mogado was cited for her excellent leadership and performance at YCDSB as Catholic School Trustee for Markham City Area 2- Wards 4,5,7 & 8. 

In nominating her, Fellow Markham Trustee Carol Cotton said,  “Trustee Mogado has served the Markham communities diligently and always maintained a board-wide perspective as decisions were made at the Board table.” 

“Our Board can be confident that Trustee Mogado will continue to approach all aspects of her work with integrity, inclusivity and the intention of putting students first in all that we do,” Trustee Cotton said.

Mogado thanked her fellow trustees and said that she looks forward to working with them and the staff to ensure a successful year. “After eight years of hard work, it is humbling for me to be voted Vice-Chair of the YCDSB and to be entrusted with this responsibility,” she added. Along with Trustee Mogado, Trustee for Aurora/King/Whitchurch-Stouffville Elizabeth Crowe was re-elected as YCDSB Chair, also by acclamation.

The trustees were sworn in following a Eucharistic celebration officiated by His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Collins of the Archdiocese of Toronto. Cardinal Collins was appointed as Honorary Chair of the Board for the four-year term, and His Excellency, Bishop Wayne Kirkpatrick was appointed as the Board’s Honorary Trustee.

The York Catholic District School Board is the third largest Catholic Board in Ontario. It is made up of 10 elected trustees, and two non-voting student trustees. It delivers educational programming to over 55,000 students in 104 schools throughout the Regional Municipality of York with an annual budget of over $600M. 

The role of the Trustee is to provide effective and accountable use of the Board’s fiscal resources and to develop, maintain, monitor and evaluate policies and organizational structures that support and promote the Board’s goals of quality learning by all students.