Alfred Chien has been a Vancouver School Board trustee since 2022 and is running again with ABC Vancouver for ballot number 305. This record covers the trustee page published by the district, the party biography and the party's School Board platform, news reports in English and Chinese, two public disputes, and the Vancouver School Board's own meeting minutes, read directly from media.vsb.bc.ca. Those minutes record his votes by name on the Sir Guy Carleton Elementary closure, the Queen Elizabeth Annex and John Henderson Annex leases, every 2026-2027 budget amendment motion and the final 2026-2027 budget, the 2027-2028 capital plan, the Britannia Hockey Academy motion and the new trustee pay levels, and his chairing of the Education Plan Committee.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 4, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
Schools and student support3/10
2/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
“he remains committed to strengthening public education, expanding opportunities for students, and building a more inclusive and prosperous Vancouver.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
ABC Vancouver’s platform on schools: 3 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, sets catchment boundaries and approves the district budget. Teacher pay and the provincial funding formula are set by the province.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
ABC Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 5 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education approves the school district’s operating and capital budgets. The Province sets the funding formula and the school tax.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
ABC Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 5 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education sets safety policies for its schools and decides whether police liaison officers work in them. Policing itself is the Vancouver Police Department’s.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
ABC Vancouver’s platform on child care: 3 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education decides how school buildings and land are used, including child care on school sites. Licensing and operating funding are provincial.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Alfred Chien (錢育廷)
Alfred Chien (錢育廷) appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 305. The City records the affiliation as ABC Vancouver.
The official roster for the current term lists Alfred Chien (錢育廷) as a Vancouver School Board trustee. The 2026 ballot entry is for the same office, so he is seeking re-election.
The page says Chien is a Vancouver School Board Trustee. The page says Chien graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a concentration in Mathematics. The page says the candidate set up an education foundation that gives free tutoring to students from low-income families.
The ABC Vancouver candidate page says Chien immigrated from Hong Kong and has lived in Vancouver for more than 31 years, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia with a major in economics and a concentration in mathematics.
The Vancouver School Board trustee profile, dated February 1, 2025, records that Chien was elected in the 2022 municipal election and describes the trustee as an educational entrepreneur.
The ABC page says Chien spent more than 15 years in financial services in roles at CIBC, BMO and HSBC covering retail banking, investment planning and private banking, and later served as chief marketing officer at an investment management company.
The ABC page says Chien set up an education foundation that provides free tutoring to students from low-income families.
The district trustee profile lists a seat on the board of directors of the Canadian Liver Foundation for British Columbia and Yukon, and past president of the Vancouver Chinatown New Century Lions Club.
In the 2022 election Chien received 67,326 votes, or 39.26 per cent, the second-highest total among school board candidates, and was elected.
The district's trustee page lists him as chair of the Education Plan Committee, vice-chair of the Finance and Personnel Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. The Board's attendance sheet for the 2025-2026 school year records him at 14 of the 15 public Board meetings (absent on April 7, 2026) and at 5 of the 8 public delegation meetings that were held.
Chinese-language news outlets have printed his Chinese name: 温哥华港湾 (bcbay.com) listed him as 钱育廷 in an August 30, 2022 report on ABC's candidates, and Sing Tao listed him as 錢育廷 (Alfred Chien) in a September 28, 2026 report on ABC's platform.
Chien appears on the October 17, 2026 ballot as number 305, listed as CHIEN, Alfred with the Chinese characters for the name, running with ABC Vancouver.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
11 commitments shown · Checked Oct 4
2026 · EducationCampaign pledge
Swimming lessons during the school day
ABC Vancouver's 2026 platform says the party will bring swimming lessons into the school day.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The commitment appears on the party platform page. The party's School Board one-page platform says an ABC School Board will work with the Park Board and community partners to bring swimming instruction into physical education, and the party's September 28, 2026 release adds free access for children aged 3 to 12 to the first three levels of the Joe Fortes Learn-to-Swim program. None of the three pages names Chien, and no separate statement from him was found.
What still needs checking
Which body pays for the lessons and whether the school board or the city delivers them.
The ABC platform says the party will press for the provincial school tax collected in Vancouver to fund Vancouver schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The platform page states the commitment, and the party's School Board one-page platform gives its figures: it says the Province will collect $658,682,122 from Vancouver residents through the school tax in 2026, that the Vancouver School Board received $598,400,000 in provincial grants for its 2025-2026 budget, and it asks for the $60 million difference. The Province sets the school tax and the funding formula, so this is a request to another government.
What still needs checking
What the party would ask the province to do, and by when.
The ABC platform says the party will increase teaching assistance by investing in classrooms.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The platform page states the commitment. The party's School Board one-page platform adds that an ABC School Board will increase teaching assistants and specialized support staff for students with diverse learning needs. Neither page gives a number of positions, a cost or a date.
What still needs checking
How many positions, and where the money comes from given the district's 2026-27 budget pressure.
The ABC platform says the party will mandate that provincially approved drug consumption sites be located away from schools and parks.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The platform page states the commitment. The provincial health authority and the City's zoning bylaw decide where these sites go, so the School Board has no vote on it.
What still needs checking
What distance rule the party wants and which authority would apply it.
The ABC platform says the party will double child care spaces from a base of 2,000.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The platform page states the target. It does not say how many of the new spaces would sit on Vancouver School Board property, which is the part of child care policy a trustee has power over.
What still needs checking
How many of the new child care spaces would be built on school district land, and by when.
Supporting the return of police liaison officers to schools
Chien said the board's critics of police in schools should be educated, describing police as students' friends rather than their enemy.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The Tyee's November 2022 report quotes Chien directly at the board table where trustees voted to bring the School Liaison Officer program back. The quote explains his view of that 2022 decision. No 2026 statement from Chien repeats it; the party's 2026 School Board platform commits to keep the program, but that page does not name him.
What still needs checking
Whether Chien proposes any change to the School Liaison Officer program in this campaign.
The party's School Board platform says an ABC School Board will maintain the School Liaison Officer program and strengthen partnerships between schools, families and trained police officers.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party's one-page School Board platform and its September 28, 2026 release both state the commitment. Neither page names Chien. The Board decides whether police liaison officers work in its schools. No cost, number of officers or date is given.
What still needs checking
Whether the party would change the program after the district's 2026 evaluation of it.
Specialized training and individual supports for students
The party's School Board platform says an ABC School Board will expand specialized training, classroom resources and individualized supports so teachers can help every student succeed.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The one-page School Board platform states the commitment. It does not name Chien and gives no number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which supports, how many staff, and which budget line would pay for them.
A monthly committee of Council, Park Board and School Board
ABC's September 28, 2026 release says the party will set up a committee across the three elected bodies that meets monthly to oversee its family plan and track waitlists, new openings and access.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party release states the commitment. It does not name Chien, and it does not say who would sit on the committee or when it would start.
What still needs checking
Whether the School Board would vote to join such a committee, and which trustees would sit on it.
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Approved
School Liaison Officer program returned to Vancouver schools
The board voted 5 to 4 to ask staff to bring back a revised School Liaison Officer program, with police officers back in schools no later than September 2023. Chien is named among the five trustees who voted in favour.
Scope, limits and sources
The motion was written by vice-chair Preeti Faridkot. Trustees Suzie Mah, Jennifer Reddy, Lois Chan-Pedley and Janet Fraser voted against, and their attempts to refer the motion to committee or wait for legal advice were defeated. A week earlier the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner had asked all B.C. school districts to end these programs.
Approved, Chien voting for the closure at both readings
Permanent closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary
The board voted 5 to 3 to permanently close Sir Guy Carleton Elementary, which had been empty since a 2016 fire. Staff said keeping the vacant buildings had cost more than $650,000 over about a decade. The Vancouver School Board's own minutes show Chien voted for the closure at both the December 17 and December 18, 2025 special meetings, and spoke in favour of it at the board table.
Scope, limits and sources
Trustees Suzie Mah, Preeti Faridkot and Jennifer Reddy voted against at both meetings. The Vancouver School Board's own minutes, published inside the January 28, 2026 board meeting agenda package, record the December 17, 2025 vote to give the closure bylaw its first and second readings CARRIED 5 to 3, and the December 18, 2025 vote to give it a third and final reading also CARRIED 5 to 3, with Chien voting for both alongside Fraser, Jung, Chan-Pedley and Richardson. At the December 17 meeting the minutes record: "Trustee Chien expressed support for the closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary explaining that closing the school would enable further discussion and open up potential opportunities for reimagining and improving the site, such as constructing a seismically safe school that would offer future benefits for the community."
Trustees passed an $826 million draft budget on a Monday in April 2026, with final adoption set for April 29. The district expected 330 fewer students in 2026-27, about 300 of them international students, and cut full-time positions to balance the budget.
Scope, limits and sources
Trustee Suzie Mah said the cuts included three student support workers at Britannia and David Thompson secondary schools. The CBC report does not record how individual trustees voted. The Vancouver School Board's own minutes record how Chien voted on each budget amendment motion on April 20, 2026, on the financial plan on April 29, 2026 and on the final budget bylaw on April 30, 2026 (see the records below).
Approved, with Chien voting for the policy on May 27 and for the pay levels on June 17, 2026
Higher pay for the next board of trustees
The board approved a remuneration policy and then new pay levels for the board elected in October 2026. The chair moves from $40,315 to $54,100 a year, the vice-chair from $39,448 to $47,800, and other trustees from $37,215 to $41,600. The Board's minutes record Chien voting against postponing the policy to December 2026, for the policy on May 27, 2026, and for the pay levels on June 17, 2026, which carried 5 to 2 with Faridkot and Mah against.
Scope, limits and sources
COPE trustee Suzie Mah proposed leaving the decision to the incoming board. The May 27, 2026 minutes list Mah both among those voting for the policy and as the one vote against it, so the count printed there contains an error; the Vancouver Sun reported her as the only vote against. The policy sets a review in the final year of each board term, benchmarked against other Metro Vancouver districts.
Voted against five of six spending motions; supported the sixth, which was defeated 4 to 4
Votes on the 2026-2027 budget amendment motions
At the April 20, 2026 special board meeting on the 2026-2027 budget, trustees voted on six trustee motions proposing to add spending beyond the draft budget. The Vancouver School Board's own minutes name Chien voting against restoring 300 extra Supervision Aide hours (carried 6 to 2) and its $9,200 funding source (carried 7 to 1, Chien the lone vote against), against reinstating 3.0 FTE student support staffing (defeated 3 to 5), against teacher-on-call coverage for resource teachers from the first day of absence (defeated 2 to 6), against reinstating a teacher of the visually impaired and a hospital homebound teacher (defeated 3 to 5), against redirecting principal and vice-principal salary funding to direct classroom support for students with disabilities (defeated 2 to 6), and against fully designating the City of Vancouver's $325,000 food grant (carried 6 to 1, with Faridkot abstaining, Chien the lone vote against). He voted for the one motion that would have restored a position, reinstating a 1.0 FTE District Teacher Librarian funded by $140,389 from operating contingency; it was defeated 4 to 4.
Scope, limits and sources
The votes are recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of the April 20, 2026 special meeting, published inside the agenda package for the April 29, 2026 board meeting. No campaign material from Chien or ABC Vancouver addresses these votes.
At the same meeting, trustees voted on Trustee Reddy's motion asking the board to spend up to $75,000 studying a Vancouver School Board-run before-and-after-school child care pilot at multiple school sites. The board's own minutes record Chien casting the only vote against the motion as amended, which carried 7 to 1. He also voted against the amendment naming operating contingency as the funding source (carried 6 to 2) and against the amendment asking the Ministry of Education and Child Care to cover the study's cost (carried 6 to 2), and voted for a separate, defeated amendment that would have asked the Ministry to fund the study directly instead of the district (defeated 3 to 5).
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of the April 20, 2026 special meeting, published inside the agenda package for the April 29, 2026 board meeting.
Chaired the Education Plan Committee and presented its reports to the board
Chien chairs the Vancouver School Board's Education Plan Committee. The board's own minutes record him presenting the committee's November 5, 2025 report on the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning to the full board on November 26, 2025, its February 4, 2026 report on the 2026/27 to 2028/29 school calendars and a digital literacy update on February 25, 2026, and its May 6, 2026 report on school codes of conduct for personal digital devices on May 27, 2026. On February 25, 2026 he moved the motion to approve the District and Vancouver Learning Network school calendars for those three years, which carried unanimously. He signed the committee's September 9, 2026 report, which sent the 2025-2026 student learning report and the school learning plans to the Board.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes, published inside the January 28, 2026 and April 29, 2026 board meeting agenda packages, in the May 27, 2026 minutes, and in the committee's September 9, 2026 report. The Tyee separately reported on August 11, 2026 that Chien chairs this committee.
Voted for the Queen Elizabeth Annex 99-year ground lease
Trustees voted on a bylaw giving three readings to a 99-year ground lease of the former Queen Elizabeth Annex school site to the Conseil scolaire francophone, following a 2025 Supreme Court of British Columbia order. The board's own minutes record Chien voting for the bylaw's three readings, which carried alongside Fraser, Jung, Richardson and Zhang; Faridkot voted against and Mah abstained.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own Special Board Meeting minutes of March 16, 2026, published inside the agenda package for the April 29, 2026 board meeting.
Carried 7 to 2 on April 29 and 6 to 2 on April 30, 2026, Chien voting for both
Voted for the 2026-2027 financial plan and the final budget bylaw
On April 29, 2026 the Board approved the 2026-2027 Financial Plan 7 to 2 and gave the Annual Budget Bylaw its first two readings, with Chien voting for both. Mah and Reddy voted against, so the bylaw could not be given all three readings that night. At a special meeting on April 30, 2026 the bylaw was read a third time and adopted 6 to 2, again with Chien voting for it.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of April 29 and April 30, 2026. Richardson was absent on April 30. The same April 29 minutes record Chien voting for the 2026 summer learning fees for students from outside the district.
Voted for a parking access easement on Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary land
Trustees voted on a bylaw granting a parking access easement over part of the Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary school grounds. On April 29, 2026 Chien voted against Trustee Reddy's motion to send the bylaw back to committee for a traffic and safety study and a consultation with the school community, which was defeated 2 to 7. He voted for the bylaw's first two readings that night and for its third reading and adoption on April 30, 2026, carried 6 to 2.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of April 29 and April 30, 2026. Mah and Reddy voted against at each step.
Adopted April 30, 2026; Chien abstained at each vote
Abstained on the John Henderson Annex lease
Trustees voted on a bylaw approving a lease of the John Henderson Annex. The minutes record Chien abstaining on April 29, 2026, when a motion to give all three readings at once was defeated and the first two readings carried, and again on April 30, 2026, when the bylaw was adopted 4 to 2.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of April 29 and April 30, 2026. Joshua Zhang also abstained. The minutes do not give a reason for either abstention.
Moved to defer the school codes of conduct for personal digital devices
As chair of the Education Plan Committee, Chien moved that the Board defer the committee's motion on school codes of conduct for personal digital devices and ask staff to clarify key parts of the proposed direction. The motion carried unanimously. The Superintendent said an update could come to the committee in spring 2027.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of May 27, 2026.
Voted for the 2027-2028 capital plan and a $27.36 million request to the Province
The Board approved the 2027-2028 Five-Year Major Capital Plan and Minor Capital Plan for submission to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and asked the Ministry to let the district spend $27,360,000 of restricted capital money: up to $11,360,000 for building system upgrades, up to $10,000,000 for accessible washrooms and up to $6,000,000 to remove vacant buildings. The minutes record Chien voting for it.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of June 17, 2026. Mah voted against. Reddy and Joshua Zhang were absent.
Main motion defeated 3 to 4, Chien voting against it
Votes on keeping the Britannia Hockey Academy open for 2026-2027
Trustee Mah moved that the Board pause the district's suspension of the Britannia Hockey Academy for the 2026-2027 school year and work with the school community to rebuild enrolment. Chien voted to add the motion to the agenda. He then moved an amendment to keep the pause in place only until the end of August 2026, which was defeated 2 to 4 with Chan-Pedley the only other trustee voting for it. He voted against the main motion, which was defeated 3 to 4.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of June 17, 2026. The Tyee reported on July 8, 2026 that Mah's motion was defeated by Fraser, Chan-Pedley, Chien and Jung, with Faridkot and Richardson voting for it.
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Statement
Board debate on returning police officers to schools
At the board table Chien argued that Vancouver voters had given ABC majorities on council and the school board because they supported returning school liaison officers and hiring 100 more police officers. Speaking about people who opposed police in schools, Chien said the best response was to educate them and described police as friends rather than enemies. Turnout in that election was 36 per cent.
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
Policy dispute
Social media post showing parent names during budget consultation
On April 23, 2025 Chien posted a screenshot of an email inbox to X showing the first names and partial last names of parents who had written to trustees through the district parent advisory council during the financial plan consultation, and referred to the emails as spam. The district confirmed that in three cases a full last name appeared and that no contents of any letter were disclosed.
Candidate or party response
The district statement says the post was taken down on the morning of Sunday, May 4, 2025. CTV's published page gives the headline and opening line about the post; the rest of the article text could not be retrieved by voche.me to confirm further detail. No public statement by Chien about the post was found in the sources read.
Verified status and limits
The Vancouver School Board published a statement on May 5, 2025 apologising for any concern caused, saying the consultation had been an open process in which submitted material could be made public, and saying the incident was an opportunity to look again at balancing transparency with privacy. No decision by a privacy regulator was found.
City court application over Chinese characters on the ballot
Chief election officer Jason Twa asked the B.C. provincial court to decide whether seven candidates, including Chien, could have usual names that combine an English name with Chinese characters printed on the October 17 ballot. The city's lawyer argued the Chinese names were not part of the candidates' usual names, that all the candidates except one appeared to use only English names on social media, and that adding the Chinese names later in the filing process was odd.
Candidate or party response
No published statement by Chien was found. Two other affected candidates, Iona Bonamis and Lenny Zhou, spoke to reporters.
Verified status and limits
Judge Roger Cutler ruled on September 18, 2026 that all seven candidates may use their usual names on the ballot, and said written reasons would follow. The judge added that the ruling should not be read as saying the city's application was inappropriate.
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Reporting
温哥华港湾 (bcbay.com)
优化城市党ABC温哥华候选人会见中文媒体 (ABC Vancouver candidates meet Chinese-language media)
Report on an ABC round table with Chinese-language media during the 2022 campaign. It lists 钱育廷 (Alfred Chien) among ABC's five School Board candidates.
The Vancouver School Board Votes Cops Back into Schools
Report on the 5 to 4 vote to restart the school liaison officer program, including Chien's remarks at the meeting and the board's decision to reject an amendment seeking legal advice first.
Vancouver School Board trustee faces backlash after post referring to parents concerns as spam
Report that Chien posted screenshots on X on April 23, 2025 showing parent names attached to emails about an inclusive education survey, described the emails as spam, and removed the post on the Sunday. Former trustee Patti Bacchus and district parent council president Melanie Chang criticised the post, and the report says Chien brought an emergency motion about email disruption to the following board meeting.
What’s Lost When a High School Hockey Program Ends?
Report on the end of the Britannia Hockey Academy. It names Chien among the four trustees whose votes defeated Mah's June 17, 2026 motion to keep the program running for another year.
The report says Chien chaired the district's education plan committee and was the only ABC trustee present when staff presented the rollout of Microsoft Copilot accounts for students aged 13 and older, and that Chien asked staff no questions while three other trustees did. It also says Chien was not featured in ABC social media posts at that point and had not replied to the outlet's request for comment.
B.C. judge rules Vancouver city candidates can use Chinese names on ballot
Report on the provincial court decision allowing seven candidates, Chien among them, to keep Chinese characters in the usual name printed on the ballot.
Candidates Questionnaire Week 1: Meet your School Board candidates and find out why they're running
The Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper published School Board candidates' answers on why they are running. It lists Chien among the candidates who were sent the questionnaire and did not respond by the deadline.
Chinese-language report on ABC's family platform. It names 錢育廷 (Alfred Chien) as one of six Chinese Canadian candidates on ABC's slate of 24, running for School Board.
Sources checked October 4, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver · September 25, 2026
Two sources give different figures for the same facts: the ABC page says more than 31 years in Vancouver and more than 18 years with Junior Achievement, while the district profile from February 2025 says 27 years and 15 years. The official city results site could not be opened, so the 2022 vote count comes from an encyclopedia page that cites it. The Board's minutes for its September 23, 2026 meeting were not found published at media.vsb.bc.ca on October 4, 2026, so votes from that meeting are not recorded here. Chien's VoteMate 2026 profile page states he has not submitted a profile; the promises it shows are ABC's party text. He did not answer The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026. His X account (@alfredchien1) could not be read: the public reader service returned a rate-limit error on October 4, 2026. An Investment Executive article titled "A lift for underprivileged students" appears in search results for his name, but the site showed a security check and no article text, so it is not used. A CTV News article of April 14, 2026 about a trustee's child care proposal is not used: its body could not be read, and the Board's minutes show the April 20, 2026 child care motion was Trustee Reddy's. No interview, op-ed or Chinese-language interview with Chien was found, and no campaign material setting out School Board promises in his own words was found beyond the general sentence on his ABC Vancouver candidate page.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the party candidate page and platform, the party's School Board platform, the City's candidate list, the Vancouver School Board's minutes from April to September 2026, and news reports in English and Chinese.
The party site blocks automated requests, so its pages were read through a fetch tool, and the City's list through a reader service. The Vancouver School Board's minutes were downloaded directly.
Checks still to do: the Board's September 23, 2026 minutes, which were not yet published, and the nomination papers.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Current term
Vancouver School Board trustee
The official roster lists Alfred Chien (錢育廷) in this office during the term that ends with the 2026 election. His recorded votes, taken from the Board's own minutes, are listed in the record section of this page.
November 2025 to September 2026 (dates of the Board minutes read)
Chair, Education Plan Committee
The Board's minutes record him presenting this committee's reports to the Board on November 26, 2025, February 25, 2026 and May 27, 2026, and signing the report of its September 9, 2026 meeting as chairperson.
The committee's report of its September 9, 2026 meeting lists him as vice-chair, and the district's trustee page lists the same role and a seat on the Audit Committee.
The party page says this work covered retail banking, investment planning and private banking over more than 15 years, followed by a chief marketing officer role at an investment management company. No start or end dates are given.
Length of service stated differently by two sources
Volunteer facilitator, Junior Achievement British Columbia
The party page says more than 18 years as a facilitator helping young people with financial literacy and entrepreneurship. The district profile, dated February 2025, says 15 years.
Co-founder of a youth leadership award, according to his campaign
The ABC page says he co-founded the Lions Medal of Merit Outstanding Young Leaders Award. The district's trustee page, dated February 2025, names him as one of the founders and judges of the Vancouver Outstanding Leaders Award and the Vancouver Outstanding Young Ambassadors Award. voche.me has not checked either claim with the award organizers.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
How would you assess the impact of student supports while managing the district’s budget?
No response has been submitted.
How would you balance student learning support, facilities and staffing within the district’s available funding?
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Alfred Chien (錢育廷)?
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What is Alfred Chien (錢育廷)'s ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Alfred Chien (錢育廷) is number 305 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
What party did Alfred Chien (錢育廷) run with?
Alfred Chien (錢育廷) ran for School Board with ABC Vancouver.
Does Alfred Chien (錢育廷) currently hold public office?
Yes. Alfred Chien (錢育廷) currently serves as Vancouver School Board trustee.
How many sources does this Alfred Chien (錢育廷) profile cite?
This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Alfred Chien (錢育廷) filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Alfred Chien (錢育廷). This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Alfred Chien (錢育廷)'s page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Alfred Chien (錢育廷) in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When was the election Alfred Chien (錢育廷) ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the School Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
Added the Board's April to June 2026 votes, the party's School Board platform and new reports; corrected four errors
Added the Board's own minutes of April 29, April 30, May 27 and June 17, 2026, which record Chien's votes on the final 2026-2027 budget, the Fleming parking easement, the John Henderson Annex lease, the trustee pay policy and pay levels, the 2027-2028 capital plan and the Britannia Hockey Academy motion. Added the party's one-page School Board platform and its September 28 family platform release as party commitments, the 2025-2026 attendance sheet, reports by The Tyee, Sing Tao, bcbay.com and The Griffins' Nest, and an online forum on October 6. Corrections: the biography said his current office differs from the one he is seeking, when both are School Board trustee; the Education Plan Committee record dated his February 4 report and the school calendar motion to April 29, 2026, when the minutes place both at the February 25, 2026 meeting; the 2022 School Liaison Officer quote was counted as a 2026 statement in his own words, and it is now marked as earlier-term material; and the drug consumption site and school tax commitments are now marked as needing another government. Removed the October 3 advance voting day from the calendar because that date has passed.
Corrected a paraphrased pledge and added the voche.me score tags
The drug-consumption-sites-away-from-schools pledge was rewritten to match the campaign platform's exact wording. Every commitment was tagged for the School Board score, new commitments and Vancouver School Board voting records were added from the district's own meeting minutes, and the seven-step search log and questionnaire status were recorded.
