{"id":49934,"date":"2022-04-14T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/?p=49934"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:54:30","slug":"a-special-council-meeting-for-the-students-of-sutton-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/staging\/en\/a-special-council-meeting-for-the-students-of-sutton-school\/","title":{"rendered":"A “special” council meeting for the students of Sutton School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A nice democratic exercise was practiced at the Sutton Town Hall when the 1st and 2nd grade students of the Sutton School came to present their project “\u00c0 v\u00e9lo, \u00e0 l’\u00e9cole!” in front of the mayor and the councillors, real and active, who held a special municipal meeting for the occasion.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Accueil des \u00e9l\u00e8ves par le maire Robert Beno\u00eet et la conseill\u00e8re Lynda Graham<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A large assembly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

About 30 children aged 6, 7 and 8, accompanied by their teachers Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Bruneau and Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Desnoyers, showed up in the council room, which had been set up as for a regular council meeting. Councillor Lynda Graham and Councillor Marc-Andr\u00e9 Blain were present and the Mayor had asked Town employees to act as the missing Councillors in order to best represent the sitting Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protocol followed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mayor called the meeting to order and followed the agenda prepared by the actual Clerk Jonathan Fortin. He explained to the very attentive audience how a meeting was usually conducted and then turned the floor over to the children who were making the presentation on behalf of their classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very well prepared citizen project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amaranta, F\u00e9lix, Florence, Frida, Gabrielle, Kalvin, L\u00e9o, Norah and Tierra took turns at the microphone to explain the project that had been prepared very seriously in class. Supported by the projection of images, the children presented their ideas for encouraging safe cycling to school: adding bike lanes, painting bikes on the ground, posting awareness signs, and organizing a cycling rally point for cycling to school. The coucil “members” were impressed with the thoroughness and relevance of their project and unanimously voted in favour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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