Preeti Faridkot has been a Vancouver School Board trustee since 2022 and is running again with ABC Vancouver for ballot number 320. This record covers the trustee profile published by the district, the party biography and platform, her own VoteMate text and Instagram posts, a 2026 statement to The Tyee on artificial intelligence in schools, and the Vancouver School Board's own minutes from November 2025 to June 2026. The minutes record her votes and motions on the closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary, the Queen Elizabeth Annex and John Henderson Annex leases, the 2026-2027 budget, the trustee pay policy and pay levels, the 2027-2028 capital plan, the Britannia Hockey Academy, a child care study, a bicycle storage study she moved herself, and her chairing of the Facilities Planning 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
“I believe we need to slow down and really look at the evidence before moving ahead.”
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 Preeti Faridkot
Preeti Faridkot appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 320. The City records the affiliation as ABC Vancouver.
The official roster for the current term lists Preeti Faridkot as a Vancouver School Board trustee. The 2026 ballot entry is for the same office, so she is seeking re-election.
The school board page says Faridkot was elected as a Vancouver School Board trustee in the 2022 municipal election. The page says Faridkot works as an information technology analyst and holds a bachelor's degree in information technology. The page says Faridkot worked for S.U.C.C.E.S.S, a non-profit agency, helping new immigrants settle in Canada.
The Vancouver School Board trustee profile describes Faridkot as an IT analyst and a parent, and says the degree held is a bachelor's in information technology.
The board profile says Faridkot previously worked for S.U.C.C.E.S.S., a non-profit organisation that helps immigrants.
Faridkot was elected to the Vancouver School Board in the 2022 municipal election with 63,807 votes, running for ABC Vancouver.
The ABC Vancouver candidate page, read again on October 4, 2026, lists her experience as "Volunteer, S.U.C.C.E.S.S.". The district profile says she formerly worked for the organisation. voche.me has not confirmed which description is correct.
The Board's attendance sheet for the 2025-2026 school year records her at 14 of the 15 public Board meetings (absent on April 13, 2026), at all 8 public delegation meetings that were held, and at all 5 meetings of the Facilities Planning Committee, which she chairs. It records her at 3 of the 5 Finance and Personnel Committee meetings.
Faridkot appears on the October 17, 2026 school board ballot at number 320 for 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.
23 commitments shown · Checked Oct 4
2026 · TechnologyCampaign pledge
Slow down chatbot accounts in schools
Slow the rollout of Microsoft Copilot accounts for students aged 13 and over until there is a clearer picture of the effect on learning.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The Tyee reported on August 11, 2026 that ABC had not released a platform position on chatbot accounts and that Faridkot gave her own view in an email to the outlet, saying the district should slow down and review the evidence, and that she would bring the issue to the board and ask staff more questions if re-elected. This is Faridkot's own position, stated ahead of any party policy.
What still needs checking
Whether ABC adopts this as a party position, and whether a motion to pause the rollout reaches a board vote.
Put more automated external defibrillators into Vancouver schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is a claim on the ABC Vancouver candidate page about the 2022 to 2026 term. No independent board record of a defibrillator decision was opened. The district's 2026-2027 capital budget, read in the Vancouver School Board's own April 29, 2026 agenda package, lists a $0.25 million Automated External Defibrillators equipment line, but that line does not name any trustee or tie the purchase to a candidate's advocacy.
What still needs checking
The board minutes that record who brought the defibrillator item forward and how the decision was made.
This is a claim on the ABC Vancouver candidate page about her advocacy in the 2022 to 2026 term. The ABC platform lists more teaching assistance as a party commitment, and the party's School Board platform says an ABC School Board will increase teaching assistants and specialized support staff. No staffing figures were found, and the Board minutes read for this record do not show a specific decision adding support assistant positions.
What still needs checking
District staffing counts for support assistants at the start and end of the 2022 to 2026 term.
This is a claim on the ABC Vancouver candidate page. Faridkot chairs the board's Facilities Planning Committee, which is confirmed independently by the district's own trustee profile and by the committee reports in the Vancouver School Board's own meeting minutes, but the Ideal Mini School decision itself does not appear in the two board agenda packages read for this record.
What still needs checking
The Facilities Planning Committee record on the Ideal Mini School move.
Bring Vancouver Police Department officers back into Vancouver schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The Tyee reported that Faridkot wrote the motion asking the board to work with the Vancouver Police Department on a new School Liaison Officer program, defended it at the board table with program statistics, and voted for it when it passed 5 to 4 on November 28, 2022. Police returned to schools in September 2023 under a changed programme. Her words quoted here are from that 2022 debate, so they count as earlier-term material. Her 2026 position on the programme is recorded separately below, from her VoteMate profile.
What still needs checking
What the district's own review says about the effect of the programme since September 2023.
The ABC platform says the party will fight to ensure that the provincial school tax collected in Vancouver goes to Vancouver schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The commitment is on the ABC Vancouver platform page, under its Restoring Vancouver section. The party's School Board one-page platform says the Province will collect $658,682,122 from Vancouver residents through the school tax in 2026, that the Board received $598,400,000 in provincial grants for its 2025-2026 budget, and asks for the $60 million difference. The Province sets the school tax and the funding formula, so this is a request to another government. Faridkot is not quoted on it.
What still needs checking
What a school board can do to change how the province shares school tax money.
Bring swimming lessons into the school day, delivered through the school system together with the Vancouver School Board.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The ABC platform page lists the commitment. A collaboration post that names Faridkot's own Instagram account as a co-author says the platform includes making the first 3 levels of swim lessons free and delivering swim lessons through the school system in collaboration with the Vancouver School Board. The party's School Board platform says an ABC School Board will work with the Park Board to bring swimming into physical education. None of these pages says which grades, what it would cost the district, or when it would start.
What still needs checking
Which grades are covered, and which body pays for pool time and instructors.
The ABC platform says the party will double childcare 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.
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 under its Public Safety section. Siting of these facilities is set by the provincial health authority and the City's own zoning bylaw, not the school board, so a trustee has no direct lever over it.
What still needs checking
What distance rule the party wants and which authority would apply it.
2026 · Facilities planning and student servicesCampaign pledge
Facilities planning and student services
The official VSB biography describes a trustee elected in 2022 with an IT and newcomer-services background.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Taken from the campaign page listed in the sources. This entry describes background rather than a commitment, so it is tagged to no scored issue and earns no points.
What still needs checking
What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
The candidate page says Faridkot has championed transparency, accountability and responsible decision-making as a trustee, and is seeking re-election to continue that approach.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is a statement of approach on the ABC Vancouver candidate page, read on September 26, 2026. It names no specific meeting rule, transparency measure, motion or date.
What still needs checking
Which specific governance or transparency measure Faridkot would change on the board.
Keep police School Liaison Officers working in Vancouver schools.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her VoteMate profile, which carries text submitted by the candidate or her team, lists this under her name as her own promise, using the heading of the party's School Board platform. That platform says an ABC School Board will maintain the program. The Board decides whether liaison officers work in its schools. Neither page gives a cost, a number of officers or a date.
What still needs checking
What the district's evaluation of the program, presented to the Policy and Governance Committee on May 13, 2026, found, and whether she would change the program.
Give every student the support to succeed, through specialized training, classroom resources and individual supports.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her VoteMate profile lists this heading under her name as her own promise. The detail comes from the party's School Board platform, which says an ABC School Board will expand specialized training, classroom resources and individualized supports. No number of staff, cost or date is given.
What still needs checking
Which supports, how many staff, and which budget line would pay for them.
Her VoteMate profile lists this heading under her name as her own promise, with no further text. It does not say how many spaces, on which school sites, or by when. The Board decides how school buildings and land are used for child care.
What still needs checking
How many child care spaces on school land she would support, and by when.
Keep school buildings open and avoid cutting programs, because a program that is cut is hard to bring back.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is from the reason-for-running text on her VoteMate profile, submitted by the candidate or her team. It matches her recorded votes against closing Sir Guy Carleton Elementary in December 2025. It does not name a policy change, such as a change to the Board's school closure policy, and gives no cost or date.
What still needs checking
Whether she would change the Board's school closure policy (Policy 14, revised in May 2026), and how she would pay for keeping schools with low enrolment open.
Keep the Britannia Hockey Academy running and build up its enrolment.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her Instagram account co-authored a September 21, 2026 post asking families to apply to the program. The Board's June 17, 2026 minutes record her seconding and voting for Trustee Mah's motion to pause the program's suspension and rebuild enrolment, which was defeated 3 to 4. The post gives no enrolment target, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Whether the program runs in 2026-2027 and what enrolment the district requires.
Supports for students with disabilities, mental health and bullying
Support students with disabilities and medical needs, strengthen mental health supports, and act on bullying and cyberbullying.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is from her own Instagram post of September 18, 2026, which lists it as work still to be done. It names no program, number of staff, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which programs or staff positions she would add, and how they would be paid for.
This is from her own Instagram post of September 18, 2026. As chair of the Facilities Planning Committee she moved the Board's 2027-2028 capital plan on June 17, 2026, which the Board sends to the Province; the Province pays for seismic projects. The post names no school, number or date.
What still needs checking
Which schools she would put first in the next capital plan.
Make public Board meetings a place where parents, students and staff can raise concerns openly, and make sure parents know where to turn when something goes wrong.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is from the reason-for-running text on her VoteMate profile and from her Instagram post of September 18, 2026. Neither names a change to the Board's meeting rules, a new office or process, or a date.
What still needs checking
Which meeting rule or complaint process she would change, and when.
Each entry below names its source. Campaign material is the candidate's own account. Nothing here is presented as a verified outcome unless the entry says so.
Approved
School Liaison Officer programme restarted
The Vancouver School Board voted 5 to 4 to open talks with the Vancouver Police Department on a new School Liaison Officer programme. The Tyee named Faridkot as the author of the motion and as one of the five trustees who voted for it. Suzie Mah, Janet Fraser, Lois Chan-Pedley and Jennifer Reddy voted against.
Scope, limits and sources
BC's human rights commissioner had called for an end to police officer programmes in BC schools, saying the need was not shown by evidence. Officers returned to Vancouver schools in September 2023 wearing casual uniforms, using unmarked vehicles and taking added cultural training.
Chaired the Facilities Planning Committee and moved the downtown catchment change and the Coal Harbour school naming
As chair of the Facilities Planning Committee, Faridkot presented the committee's November 5, 2025 report to the board and moved the motion approving Option C for the Downtown Catchment Boundary Change for the 2026-2027 school year, which carried unanimously. She also moved the motion naming the new Coal Harbour elementary school "Seaside Elementary School", together with its gifted names from the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Scope, limits and sources
The Vancouver School Board's own minutes, published inside the January 28, 2026 board meeting agenda package, record both motions as moved by Faridkot and seconded by Trustee Richardson, at the November 26, 2025 board meeting.
Moved a motion to study secure bike storage at every elementary and secondary school
Faridkot gave notice of motion and then moved that the Board direct staff to investigate the feasibility and cost of installing secure bicycle storage, such as locked bike cages, at District schools and report back with findings and recommendations. After two floor amendments changed the wording to name the Superintendent and to add secondary schools, the motion carried unanimously.
Scope, limits and sources
The Vancouver School Board's own minutes record Faridkot moving the motion, seconded by Trustee Chien, and sharing her rationale and responding to a trustee's question. A trustee noted the findings report would need to be ready before the District's capital plan is submitted to the Ministry of Infrastructure in September 2026. On June 17, 2026 she presented the committee's June 3, 2026 report to the Board, and the minutes list Secure Bike Infrastructure among its items; voche.me has not opened that report, so what staff found is not recorded here.
Her motion to pause the closure was defeated; the closure bylaw then carried 5 to 3 over her vote
Voted against the permanent closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary
Faridkot supported Trustee Mah's motion to further pause the proposed closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary and seek renewed provincial funding to reopen it, which was defeated. She then voted against giving the closure bylaw its first and second readings on December 17, 2025, and against its third reading on December 18, 2025; both readings carried 5 to 3. At the board table she spoke in opposition to the closure, pointing to rising demand from families and child care needs in the neighbourhood.
Scope, limits and sources
The Vancouver School Board's own minutes, published inside the January 28, 2026 board meeting agenda package, record: "Trustee Faridkot spoke in opposition of the closure of Sir Guy Carleton Elementary noting how the community would be negatively impacted by the decision." Trustees Mah and Reddy voted the same way both times; Chien, Fraser, Jung, Chan-Pedley and Richardson voted for the closure.
Lone vote against 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 Vancouver School Board's own minutes record Faridkot as the only trustee to vote against the bylaw's three readings; Mah abstained and the other five trustees present voted for it.
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. The minutes do not record a stated reason for the vote.
Faridkot chairs the Vancouver School Board's Facilities Planning Committee, which handles school catchment boundaries, school closures, school namings, leases and the district's capital projects. The Board's own minutes record her presenting the committee's reports to the full board and moving its recommendations, most recently its April 8 and June 3, 2026 reports. The 2025-2026 attendance sheet records her at all 5 of the committee's meetings that year.
Scope, limits and sources
The district's official trustee profile, dated February 1, 2025, lists "Facilities Planning Committee (Chair)" among her standing committee roles. The Board's minutes of January 28, April 29 and June 17, 2026 confirm the role in practice.
Voted for five of seven contested spending items, against one, and abstained on one
Votes on the 2026-2027 budget amendment motions
At the April 20, 2026 special board meeting on the 2026-2027 budget, trustees voted on a series of trustee motions proposing to add spending beyond the draft budget. The Vancouver School Board's own minutes name Faridkot voting for restoring 300 extra Supervision Aide hours (carried 6 to 2) and its $9,200 funding source (carried 7 to 1); for 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); for reinstating a teacher of the visually impaired and a hospital homebound teacher (defeated 3 to 5); for reinstating a 1.0 FTE District Teacher Librarian (defeated on a 4 to 4 tie); abstaining on fully designating the City of Vancouver's $325,000 food grant (carried 6 to 1); and against redirecting principal and vice-principal salary funding to direct classroom support for students with disabilities (defeated 2 to 6).
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 Faridkot or ABC Vancouver addresses these votes individually.
Voted for a child care feasibility study after opposing how it would be funded
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 Faridkot voting for the final motion, which carried 7 to 1 with Chien the only vote against. Faridkot first tried, together with Trustees Chien and Jung, to have the Ministry of Education and Child Care fund the study instead of the district, which was defeated, and she voted against naming operating contingency as the funding source, which carried anyway.
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.
Carried 7 to 2 on April 29 and 6 to 2 on April 30, 2026, Faridkot voting for both
Seconded the 2026-2027 financial plan and the final budget bylaw
On April 29, 2026 Faridkot seconded Trustee Fraser's motion approving the 2026-2027 Financial Plan, which carried 7 to 2, and voted for the first two readings of the Annual Budget Bylaw. 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 she seconded the motion giving the bylaw its third reading, and it was adopted 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. At the same April 29 meeting she abstained on the 2026 summer learning fees for students from outside the district, which carried.
Moved the 2026-2027 capital bylaw and the Annual Facilities Grant spending plan
As chair of the Facilities Planning Committee, Faridkot moved Capital Bylaw No. 2026/27-CPSD39-01, which was given three readings and adopted, and moved the motion approving the 2026-2027 Annual Facilities Grant expenditure plan for submission to the Ministry of Infrastructure. Both carried unanimously.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of April 29, 2026. The minutes do not give the dollar amounts.
Moved the Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary parking access easement
Faridkot moved the bylaw granting a parking access easement over part of the Sir Sandford Fleming Elementary school grounds. She voted against Trustee Reddy's motion to send it back to committee for a traffic and safety study and a consultation with the school community, which was defeated 2 to 7. She moved its first two readings on April 29, 2026 and seconded its third reading on April 30, 2026, when it was adopted 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.
Seconded and spoke for the John Henderson Annex lease
Faridkot seconded the motion to give the John Henderson Annex Lease Bylaw all three readings on April 29, 2026 and gave the reasons for it; that motion was defeated because it needed every trustee's consent. She voted for the first two readings that night and seconded the third reading on April 30, 2026, when the bylaw was adopted 4 to 2 with Chien and Joshua Zhang abstaining.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of April 29 and April 30, 2026. The minutes do not record what she said.
Policy carried May 27, 2026; pay levels carried 5 to 2 on June 17, 2026 with Faridkot against
Seconded the trustee pay policy, then voted against the new pay levels
On May 27, 2026 Faridkot seconded the motion approving Policy 6, Trustee Remuneration and Expenses, voted against Trustee Mah's motion to postpone it to December 2026, and voted for the policy. On June 17, 2026 she voted against the pay levels set under that policy for the board elected in October 2026: $54,100 a year for the chair, $47,800 for the vice-chair and $41,600 for other trustees. That motion carried 5 to 2, with Faridkot and Mah against.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded by name in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of May 27 and June 17, 2026. The May 27 minutes list Mah among both those for and those against each of the two votes, so the counts printed there contain an error. The minutes do not record her reasons.
Moved the 2027-2028 capital plan and a $27.36 million request to the Province
As chair of the Facilities Planning Committee, Faridkot moved that the Board approve the 2027-2028 Five-Year Major Capital Plan and Minor Capital Plan for submission to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and ask 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. It carried 6 to 1.
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.
Moved the bylaw on rezoning charges for the new Olympic Village elementary school
Faridkot moved that the Olympic Village Elementary School Rezoning Charges Bylaw, 2026 be given three readings at one meeting, which carried with Mah abstaining, and then moved its three readings and adoption, which carried unanimously.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of June 17, 2026. The minutes do not state the amount of the charges.
Main motion defeated 3 to 4, Faridkot voting for it
Seconded and voted for keeping the Britannia Hockey Academy open for 2026-2027
Faridkot voted to add Trustee Mah's motion to the agenda (carried 5 to 2) and seconded it. The motion asked the Board to pause the district's suspension of the Britannia Hockey Academy for 2026-2027 and work with the school community to rebuild enrolment. She voted against Trustee Fraser's amendment to remove the pause (defeated 2 to 4). She seconded Trustee Chien's amendment to keep the pause only until the end of August 2026 and then voted against it (defeated 2 to 4). She voted for 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 the motion had support from Faridkot and Richardson and was defeated by Fraser, Chan-Pedley, Chien and Jung.
Seconded the process for reviewing the district's strategic plan
Faridkot seconded Trustee Richardson's motion approving the process and timeline for reviewing the Vancouver School Board's Strategic Plan and Policy 1, and directing the Superintendent to gather evidence and plan public engagement in 2026, with final recommendations coming to the Board after the 2026 election.
Scope, limits and sources
Recorded in the Vancouver School Board's own minutes of June 17, 2026.
Left private Board sessions after declaring a potential conflict of interest
The Board's May 27, 2026 minutes report that Faridkot left the April 29, 2026 special private session, where the Board discussed bargaining matters, and part of the May 27, 2026 private session, each time because of a potential conflict of interest. The 2025-2026 attendance sheet also marks her as absent for a declared conflict of interest at the private meeting of February 18, 2026, as it does for Fraser and Richardson.
Scope, limits and sources
The attendance sheet defines its mark as a trustee who declared a conflict of interest related to an agenda item and was absent from the meeting. The minutes do not say what the conflict was.
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Statement
Remarks on the police liaison motion
Defending the motion she wrote, Faridkot told the board "I understand that police do not belong in schools," but argued that crime, drugs and gangs did not belong there either, and said building bridges between communities and institutions was better than division. She cited School Liaison Officer statistics from 2015 to 2019, saying only 0.29 per cent of youth contacted were formally charged with a crime, and said the numbers showed the program was not complicit in racial profiling.
Faridkot told The Tyee that the rollout of Microsoft Copilot accounts should be slowed, and asked how the tools are affecting students' learning, critical thinking and development, and what the privacy and data concerns are. The Tyee noted ABC had not published a platform on the question, and that Faridkot said she would bring the issue to the board and ask staff more questions if re-elected.
Remarks opposing the Sir Guy Carleton Elementary closure
Speaking against the closure bylaw, Faridkot said the community would be negatively affected, pointed to the school's location in a rapidly growing, high-density neighbourhood with rising demand from families and child care needs, and argued for keeping the school open, including alternative options such as sharing the site with the Conseil scolaire francophone.
In a video post on her Instagram account, Faridkot said her focus over four years had been student safety and stronger supports for students. She listed the work she says remains: students with disabilities and medical needs, mental health supports, bullying and cyberbullying, safe schools, seismic upgrades and new schools, and better communication with families. The post ends with the line "Students first. Safety always. Work that matters."
Call for students to join the Britannia Hockey Academy
A post co-authored by her Instagram account asked families to help raise enrolment in the Britannia Hockey Academy, which is open to students from across the district, and gave the September 29 application deadline and a November 5 information night.
A collaboration post that lists her Instagram account as a co-author, with ABC Vancouver's account, announced the party's platform, including free swim lessons for the first three levels and swim lessons delivered through the school system together with the Vancouver School Board.
Text submitted by the candidate or her team, which was on the page when voche.me read it on October 4, 2026 and was missing on September 26. She writes that students need safe and supportive schools and families need clear communication, that public Board meetings should let parents, students and staff raise concerns openly, that a program is hard to bring back once it is cut, and that schools should never be closed.
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Policy dispute
Motion to bring police officers back into schools
Faridkot wrote and voted for the motion to restart a School Liaison Officer programme, which passed 5 to 4. BC's human rights commissioner had asked school boards to end these programmes, saying there was no evidence-based need and pointing to risks for students from marginalised groups. Four trustees voted against.
Candidate or party response
Faridkot said the aim was to build understanding and a positive relationship, and acknowledged that others hold the view that police do not belong in schools.
Verified status and limits
The motion passed. Officers returned to Vancouver schools in September 2023 under a revised programme, and members of the police department's own African Descent Advisory Committee said their concerns remained.
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Reporting
The Tyee
The Vancouver School Board Votes Cops Back into Schools
Katie Hyslop reported the 5 to 4 vote, named Faridkot as the trustee who wrote the motion, and set out the arguments from trustees, the police chief and the human rights commissioner.
Officers went back into Vancouver schools under a revised programme. Members of the police department's African Descent Advisory Committee said the changes did not answer their concerns, and a police board member had resigned over the decision in June 2023.
David Thompson and John Oliver high schools' Sikh Clubs giving back
Report on the Sikh Clubs at two Vancouver secondary schools. It names School Trustee Preeti Faridkot as a special guest at their Vaisakhi celebration, with the local Member of Parliament.
What’s Lost When a High School Hockey Program Ends?
Report on the suspension of the Britannia Hockey Academy. It names Faridkot and Richardson as the trustees who supported Mah's June 17, 2026 motion to keep the program running, which four trustees defeated.
Every Vancouver party was asked about artificial intelligence in schools. ABC had no platform on it, and Faridkot gave a personal view in favour of slowing the rollout.
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 Faridkot among the candidates who were sent the questionnaire and did not respond by the deadline.
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
The claims about defibrillators, support staff, music and fine arts, the Ideal Mini School move and financial literacy come from the ABC Vancouver candidate page and her VoteMate biography, which are the campaign speaking about itself; none of them appears by name in the Board minutes read for this record. The Board's minutes of its September 23, 2026 meeting were not found published at media.vsb.bc.ca on October 4, 2026, and the Facilities Planning Committee's June 3, 2026 report on secure bike storage was not opened. Two sources describe her S.U.C.C.E.S.S. role differently: the district profile says she worked there and the ABC page says she volunteered. The 2022 vote count comes from an encyclopedia page that cites the City's results. Three of her VoteMate promises are headings only, with no further text. She did not answer The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026. Her X account (@PreetiFaridkot), which the City's candidate list links, could not be read: the public reader service returned a rate-limit error on October 4, 2026. Only the six most recent of the 148 posts on her Instagram account could be read. No interview, op-ed, debate appearance or Punjabi-language report naming her in this campaign was found.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the Vancouver School Board's minutes of April 29, April 30, May 27 and June 17, 2026 and its 2025-2026 attendance sheet; her VoteMate profile and Instagram account; the ABC Vancouver candidate page, platform and School Board platform; The Griffins' Nest questionnaires; and The Tyee.
Campaign pages read on October 4, 2026. Her VoteMate profile now carries text submitted by the candidate or her team, and her Instagram account carries her own posts. Each stated position on this page quotes the page it came from.
Checks still to do: the Board minutes of September 23, 2026, which were not published when this record was checked, and the posts on her X account, which could not be read.
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 Preeti Faridkot in this office during the term that ends with the 2026 election. Her recorded votes and motions from the Board's own minutes are listed in the record section of this page.
The district's trustee profile lists her as chair of this committee, which handles school catchments, closures, namings, leases and capital plans. The Board's minutes record her presenting its reports and moving its recommendations at the April 29 and June 17, 2026 meetings.
The district profile says she formerly worked for the immigrant settlement organisation S.U.C.C.E.S.S. The ABC Vancouver candidate page lists the same organisation as volunteer experience.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which facilities decisions from this term should voters assess, and which projects remain incomplete?
No response has been submitted.
How would you balance student learning support, facilities and staffing within the district’s available funding?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Preeti Faridkot's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Preeti Faridkot?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Preeti Faridkot's own campaign.
What is Preeti Faridkot's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Preeti Faridkot is number 320 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
What party did Preeti Faridkot run with?
Preeti Faridkot ran for School Board with ABC Vancouver.
Does Preeti Faridkot currently hold public office?
Yes. Preeti Faridkot currently serves as Vancouver School Board trustee.
How many sources does this Preeti Faridkot profile cite?
This profile lists 3 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Preeti Faridkot filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Preeti Faridkot. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Preeti Faridkot's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Preeti Faridkot 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 Preeti Faridkot 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, her VoteMate and Instagram statements, 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 Faridkot's votes and motions on the final 2026-2027 budget, the capital bylaw and facilities grant, the Fleming parking easement, the John Henderson Annex lease, the trustee pay policy and pay levels, the 2027-2028 capital plan, the Olympic Village rezoning charges, the strategic plan review and the Britannia Hockey Academy, plus the 2025-2026 attendance sheet. Added her own statements from her VoteMate profile and three Instagram posts as commitments, the party's School Board platform and September 28 release, reports by The Tyee, The Griffins' Nest and the Indo-Canadian Voice, and an online forum on October 6. Corrections: the biography said her current office differs from the one she is seeking, when both are School Board trustee; the experience section said her votes had not been reviewed; her 2022 School Liaison Officer quote was counted as a 2026 statement in her own words and 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.
Tagged the voche.me score and added Vancouver School Board voting records
Every commitment was tagged for the School Board score, a combined swimming-lessons-and-after-school pledge was split into two separate issue-tagged commitments, two ABC Vancouver platform commitments already recorded for her running mates were added, and new commitments and Vancouver School Board voting records were added from the district's own meeting minutes, read directly from media.vsb.bc.ca. The seven-step search log and questionnaire status were recorded.
