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Fresh faces for Halifax school board
"If we listen to each other, respect each other and get the politics out of it, I think that's when the school board is successful," Yee said. "We have to make sure that the education is the priority."

News release: Gin Yee will vote "NO" to proposed increase in board member stipend
Gin Yee, candidate for the Halifax Regional School Board, District 3, Albro Lake / Harbourview, Dartmouth Centre, and Woodside / Eastern Passage will vote against a proposed increase in the board member stipend, if re-elected to the school board later this year...

Yee is last man standing
...Mr. Yee said he wants "to serve the people again" but pointed out he’ll be serving more of them if he is voted back into board chambers...

Lone ousted board member to re-offer
...Yee says he'd like to serve the people again. If he's elected, he'll represent a larger district due to changes that will mean there will be 8 electoral districts instead of 12...

Dept. of Education says board members weren't fired, can't sue
...One member - Dartmouth representative Gin Yee, says he isn't taking part in any wrongful dismissal lawsuit because it will only divert more attention from education. Yee adds it's not fair to taxpayers for him to continue to accept a stipend - and from now on, he'll donate any stipend funds he receives back to the board...

News Release: Former School Board Member, Gin Yee, will give back school board stipend
Gin Yee, former Halifax Regional School Board member representing Dartmouth Centre, Albro Lake/Harbourview, will donate to the Halifax Regional School Board all pay received after Dec. 19, 2006...

News Release: Gin Yee, will pay a share of the cost of the mediator
Halifax Regional School Board member of Dartmouth Centre / Albro Lake - Harbourview, Gin Yee has committed to pay a share of the cost for a mediator to help settle disputes within the Halifax Regional School Board...

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