The Vancouver School Board says consultations are underway between the province and educators over new provincial enrollment software.
Trustee Mike Lombardi says several committee's have been formed to give the government input on the replacement for the failed BCeSIS software.
"And different representatives from the different organization are on that and we have got our own local committee also which is being chaired by our superintendent who is talking to our teachers, and administrators, and parents to find out what they would like. So they are asking us for input whether or not they listen to us we will find out in the end."
Lombardi says he hopes the government listens this time and doesn't commit another pricey mistake.
"Well we cerrtainly hope not because that was a disaster for us you know data is mission critical for the work of school boards and you know to have systems shut down where teachers can't enter information for report cards , can't gather data about enrolment, proved to be disasterous for most boards including Vancouver."
Lombardi says the 89-million-dollar BCeSIS software is a disaster, and the board is not willing to go down that road again.
"You know there are some school boards like Delta which have basically said we are not taking the chance and they have cut out of the BCeSIS program and come up with their own. When push comes to shove we need to make sure our needs are being met and if we need to go in that direction we may have to consider that."
The Ministry of Education is looking at new software vendors after issuing a request for proposals a few months ago.
A decision on a BCeSIS replacement should be made by early june.
The Ministry of Education decided to scrap the troubled software in September of 2011.