Does your PAC have a Constitution and Bylaws?
If yes, please be sure to post them on your school website and PAC website, if you have one so future PAC executive are able to find them.
If not, or you are unable to locate them, here are some helpful tips and examples to help you create new ones:
Create a draft
1. Refer to the school act as it pertains to Parent Advisory Councils
Parents' advisory council
8 (1) Parents of students of school age attending a school or a Provincial school may apply to the
board or to the minister, as the case may be, to establish a parents' advisory council for
that school.
(2) On receipt of an application under subsection, the board or minister must establish a
parents' advisory council for the school or the Provincial school.
(3) There must be only one parents' advisory council for each school or Provincial school.
(4) A parents' advisory council, through its elected officers, may advise the board and the
principal and staff of the school or the Provincial school respecting any matter relating to
the school or the Provincial school.
(5) A parents' advisory council, in consultation with the principal, must make bylaws governing
its meetings and the business and conduct of its affairs, including bylaws governing
(a) the dissolution of the parents' advisory council, and
(b) [Repealed 2015-24-6.]
(c) the election of a member to represent the parents' advisory council on the
district parents' advisory council.
(6) Voting at an election referred to in subsection (5) (c) must be by secret ballot.
2. Recommended items to include in a PAC Constitution:
3. Recommended items to include in PAC Bylaws:
Check out this article and interview about emergency preparedness and supplies: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-earthquakes-schools-emergency-supplies-1.3822934
The Ministry of Education recently published a preparedness guide for use in schools. This guide is useful for creating local school-specific emergency plans and procedures.
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/safe-caring-orderly/emergency-management-guide.pdf