Waterloo County Board of Education Act, 1995

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of the Bill is set out in the Preamble.

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An Act respecting the Waterloo

County Board of Education

Preamble

The Waterloo County Board of Education, referred to in this Act as the Board, has applied for special legislation to confirm certain capital projects of the Board.

It is appropriate to grant the application.

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

Capital projects confirmed

1. The capital projects of the Board that are described in the Schedule are hereby confirmed to be and to have always been validly authorized.

Deemed OMB approvals

2. (1) The Board shall be deemed to have obtained, immediately after it authorized the capital projects described in the Schedule, all the necessary Ontario Municipal Board approvals related to the capital projects and to the issue and sale of debentures for them.

Same

(2) For the purposes of every Act, the Ontario Municipal Board shall be deemed to have given its approval before April 27, 1994 under section 65 of the Ontario Municipal Board Act authorizing any undertaking, work, project, scheme, act, matter or thing related to the capital projects described in the Schedule.

Commencement

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

Short title

4. The short title of this Act is the Waterloo County Board of Education Act, 1995.

Schedule

1. Construction of a new addition of standard classrooms and significant upgrading to existing facilities at Forest Glen Public School at an estimated cost of $1,533,967 and the issue of debentures therefor in a maximum principal amount of $927,640 for a maximum term of 10 years.

2. Construction of a new single gymnasium and ancillary space, together with upgrading to existing junior kindergarten facilities at Highland Public School at an estimated cost of $1,237,021 and the issue of debentures therefor in a maximum principal amount of $1,093,378 for a maximum term of 10 years.

3. Construction of a new addition of standard classrooms and music, drama and computer laboratories and upgrading of the existing interior to allow for the conversion from vocational to composite at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School at an estimated cost of $2,604,525 and the issue of debentures therefor in a maximum principal amount of $1,076,795 for a maximum term of 10 years.

4. Construction of a new addition of standard classrooms and a single gymnasium and upgrading of existing facilities at Lexington Public School at an estimated cost of $2,631,378 and the issue of debentures therefor in a maximum principal amount of $1,125,320 for a maximum term of 10 years.

5. Construction of a new addition to the library facilities at Waterloo Collegiate Institute at an estimated cost of $787,766 and the issue of debentures therefor in a maximum principal amount of $370,507 for a maximum term of 10 years.