In 2018, Scott Piatkowski was honoured to have been chosen by the voters of Waterloo and Wilmot Township to represent them on the Waterloo Region District School Board. In October 2022, he was re-elected to a second term. His tenure as a Trustee has included serving as Vice-Chair for 2020/2021 and Chairperson of the Board for 2021/2022.
He currently serves on the following committees:
Business Services Standing Committee (Chair)
Student Achievement and Well-being Standing Committee
Agenda Development Committee
Audit Committee
Discipline Committee
Consultation Ad Hoc
Previously, he has served on the Policy Working Group, the Trustee Self-Evaluation Committee, the Past Director’s Bursary Committee, the School-Year Calendar Committee, the Committee Structure Ad Hoc Committee, the School Resource Officer Review Ad Hoc Committee, the Suspension Review Ad Hoc Committee (as Co-Chair), the Trustee Code of Conduct Review Committee, the French Immersion Review Committee, and the Waterloo Education Foundation Board of Directors.
He also serves as the board’s Delegate to the Ontario Public School Boards Association, and previously served on both their Board of Directors and Policy Development Work Team.
Piatkowski is a proud graduate of both Eastwood Collegiate (where he is on their Alumni Wall of Honour) and Wilfrid Laurier University, and the proud parent/step-parent of four KCI graduates.
In his professional life, Piatkowski works as the Ontario Program Manager for a national non-governmental organization that promotes the growth and sustainability of the affordable housing movement across Canada. As part of that role, he also serves as co-President of the staff union, PSAC Local 17759. Before starting this job in 2021, he was a longstanding manager of local non-profit housing co-operatives.
He also has extensive volunteer experience, locally and nationally, including serving as:
A former Vice-President of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
A former President of the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA)
A former Chair of the City of Waterloo's Environmental Advisory Committee
A former Chair of the Waterloo Region Cycling Advisory Committee
A former volunteer facilitator with the Co-operative Young Leaders program (CYL) and past winner of the Youth Mentorship Award from the Ontario Co-operative Association
A former minor soccer coach from 1998 to 2012
A former Chair of the Board for the WLU Students' Union and Student Senator
Scott and his wife live in a three-generation home in Ward 5.
