Former Chilliwack teacher, principal banned from running in the next school board election

“The fee will be returned [to Greg Nelmes] and we are in contact with the candidate to get the report,” Hull said. “The report will be published in our Financial Reports and Political Contributions System once it is received.”

Under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, candidates are disqualified from running in the next election if they fail to file their disclosure report by the late filing deadline.

“This penalty will remain even once we receive Greg Nelmes’ report,” Hull wrote in an email to Fraser Valley Today.

During his campaign, Nelmes did not align himself with the progressive candidates who wound up winning an expanded majority on the Chilliwack school board. He positioned himself as a centrist.

“My motivation for running for school trustee is that the interests of students come first,” Nelmes wrote in an email to Fraser Valley Today last year. “Kids first and I want to be a part of a united Board that can disagree in camera but presents a united front to the media.”

He graduated from Sardis Secondary in June 1973 and completed his undergraduate education by virtue of a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UBC in May 1977. Later, he completed his master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Victoria in August 1994.

His teaching career launched in September 1977 when he was a Grade 6/7 teacher at F.G. Leary Elementary, followed by four years at Vedder Elementary, two years at Robertson Elementary, four years at Sardis Elementary, and was vice-principal and a teacher at Tyson Elementary, Grade 5/6. He taught for seven more years before taking a teaching position as vice-principal at Vedder Elementary from 2005-07. He served as a principal at Rosedale Elementary from 2007-2010 and was later a principal at Bernard Elementary.

He previously was the Chilliwack-Hope riding association president for the Liberal Party of Canada.

by Mike Vanden Bosch

Former Chilliwack teacher, principal banned from running in the next school board election

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