Isolate Boards – Appendix B

Transfer of assets and liabilities

13.6.1 (1) Upon the merger of an isolate board with its successor board, the assets and liabilities of each isolate board are transferred to its successor board and its receiving board, if any, as follows:

1. For The Hornepayne Roman Catholic Separate School Board,

i. any assets of the board that were purchased with funding provided under the agreement between the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada entitled “Entente Canada – Ontario relative à l’enseignement dans la langue de la minorité et à l’enseignement de la seconde langue officielle 2005-2006 à 2008-2009” are transferred to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario,
ii. 50 per cent of the value of the board’s school site is transferred to the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board and 50 per cent to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario, and
iii. all other assets and liabilities of the board are transferred to the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board to be held in trust by it until that board and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario determine how the assets and liabilities are to be distributed between them.

2. For The Moosonee Roman Catholic Separate School Board,

i. any assets of the board that were purchased with funding provided under the agreement between the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada entitled “Entente Canada – Ontario relative à l’enseignement dans la langue de la minorité et à l’enseignement de la seconde langue officielle 2005-2006 à 2008-2009” are transferred to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivières,
ii. 95 per cent of the value of the board’s school site is transferred to the Northeastern Catholic District School Board and 5 per cent to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivières, and
iii. all other assets and liabilities of the board are transferred to the Northeastern Catholic District School Board to be held in trust by it until that board and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivières determine how the assets and liabilities are to be distributed between them.

3. For The Northern District School Area Board,

i. the school site for the school located in the Township of Armstrong, all property in the school and all assets and liabilities associated with the school are transferred to the Lakehead District School Board,
ii. the school site for the school located in the town site of Savant Lake, all property in the school and all assets and liabilities associated with the school are transferred to the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board, and
iii. all other assets and liabilities of the board are transferred to the Lakehead District School Board to be held in trust by it until that board and the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board determine how the assets and liabilities are to be distributed between them.

4. For The Red Lake Area Combined Roman Catholic Separate School Board,

i. any assets of the board that were purchased with funding provided under the agreement between the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada entitled “Entente Canada – Ontario relative à l’enseignement dans la langue de la minorité et à l’enseignement de la seconde langue officielle 2005-2006 à 2008-2009” are transferred to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales, and
ii. 75 per cent of the value of the board’s school site is transferred to the Kenora Catholic District School Board and 25 per cent to the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales, and
iii. all other assets and liabilities of the board are transferred to the Kenora Catholic District School Board to be held in trust by it until that board and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales determine how the assets and liabilities are to be distributed between them.

5. For all other isolate boards, all assets and liabilities of the isolate board are transferred to the successor board for the isolate board.

(2) Despite subsection (1), on September 1, 2009, the financial obligations of boards in respect of membership in the Northern School Resource Alliance are transferred to the Lakehead District School Board, to be held in trust by it on behalf of such boards.

(3) On and after September 1, 2009, the Lakehead District School Board shall ensure that the Northern School Resource Alliance provides services to the boards for which financial obligations were transferred under subsection (2) until the services are no longer required, at which time the Lakehead District School Board shall wind up the Northern School Resource Alliance.