{"id":19756,"date":"2018-02-07T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=19756"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:46:59","slug":"school-board-province-reach-agreement-on-moving-dr-g-w-williams-s-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/school-board-province-reach-agreement-on-moving-dr-g-w-williams-s-s\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board, Province reach agreement on moving Dr. G.W. Williams S.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School is on the move, and a new site for the secondary school in Aurora\u2019s northeast could be ready in five years.<br \/>\nThe York Region School Board ratified  what Board planner Dawn Adams describes as \u201cnot a typical path forward\u201d to relocate Williams on Tuesday night, less than a week after the Williams project missed a significant provincial funding announcement.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is not a typical path forward in terms of funding and capital funding because a building was in existence, but we worked very hard as a planning department to devise a secondary school strategy that did not just look at Aurora on its own, but looked at the north part of Richmond Hill up to Oak Ridges and up to Aurora,\u201d Ms. Adams tells The Auroran.<br \/>\n\u201cOur goal was, and we had community input and public meetings, to rebalance and right size the enrolment at our secondary schools in those areas through a combination of programs, boundary changes, and new and replacement people places. The Ministry supported that strategy compared to a typical new school capital process.\u201d<br \/>\nPending a site plan and municipal approvals, Ms. Adams anticipates the new Williams, which will be built on land already owned by the Board on Bayview Avenue at Borealis will be open by September 2023 at the earliest.<br \/>\nThe existing Williams site, she added, is anticipated to be retained by the Board and repurposed for administrative uses. <\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19756&#038;t=School%20Board%2C%20Province%20reach%20agreement%20on%20moving%20Dr.%20G.W.%20Williams%20S.S.&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19756&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=School%20Board%2C%20Province%20reach%20agreement%20on%20moving%20Dr.%20G.W.%20Williams%20S.S.\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19756&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=School%20Board%2C%20Province%20reach%20agreement%20on%20moving%20Dr.%20G.W.%20Williams%20S.S.&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19756\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New site for Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School could be ready by September 2023 after &#8220;atypical&#8221; plan reached between Board and Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-58E","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 22:08:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}