Having sat on a few boards myself (youth custody and extended health care rather than education) I can say a few things that I am sure apply to every board including the CBE, first they are all feeder boards, they are the minor leagues for local council and MLA's selection, when you sit on a board you find that there are a few members who are there for the long term that have an interest in the actual board but there are always one or two members, usually lawyers, accountants or local business owners that drop in for a couple of years to pad their resume, show the local party apparatchiks they can be trusted not to do anything to wacky when in the public eye is on them.
My two boards being minor were but the first step in that process, once they had done a year or two with us they would run for school board or parks board out here, a term or two with them and they run for council or mayor, that leads to MLA and Provincial posts if they don't screw up. None of them had the slightest interest in what the boards did and all of the decisions were actually made by the permanent staff, the Executive Director and his or her underlings, the only real and important decision the boards make is in choosing the staff that then decide everything for them, after that they pretty much rubber stamp what ever is put in front of them.
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