Vancouver Island NR Subgroup - 2023 Annual General Meeting minutes - DRAFT
Date: 16 November 2023
Time: 1700-1900hrs
Venue: Gorge Vale Golf Club
Attendees:
Executive committee members:
John Daniel Paulraj President
Clint Hoffman Vice president (newly elected for a term of 2 yrs.)
Sean Dyer Treasurer (newly elected for a term of 2 yrs.)
Marlow Morritt Member at Large (newly elected for a term of 2 yrs.)
Rong (Sunny) Wang Secretary (newly elected for term of 1 year)
Ismael
Agenda items:
1. Approval of the Agenda: Motion to accept the agenda as presented was moved by Sunny Wang, seconded by Tom Percy and all members were in favour.
2. Approval of 2022 AGM Minutes: Motion to accept the minutes was moved by Sunny Wang, seconded by Tom Percy and all members were in favour
3. Business arising from AGM 2022: There were no business arising from AGM 2022 minutes
4. President's report: Motion to accept President's report was moved by Sunny Wang, seconded by Clint Hoffman and all members were in favour
5. Annual Fiscal Report: Motion to accept Treasurer's financial report as presented was moved by Norman Hooper, seconded by Clint Hoffman and members were in favour
6. Approval of revised subgroup constitution and bylaw: Motion to accept the changes presented were moved by Tom Percy, seconded by Sunny Wang and all members were in favour.
7. Elections:
- Vice President (2 years) - Clint Hoffman accepted the position nominated by John Britto seconded by Sunny Wang
- Treasurer (2 years) - Sean Dyer accepted the position nominated by Christian Knapp and seconded by Marlow Morritt
- Member at Large (2 years) - Marlow Morritt accepted the position nominated by Sunny Wang seconded by Clint Hoffman
- Secretary (1 year) - Sunny Wang accepted the position nominated by Tom Percy seconded by Clint Hoffman
- Member at large (1 year) - Ismael Foroughi accepted the position nominated by Sunny Wang seconded by John Britto
8. Holistic approach to Deep Energy Retrofit presentation: Mr. Melvin Lau, Architect, AIBC presented on the topic.
9. Bargaining update: Mr. Hugo Buttau, NR Bargaining Coordinator presented the recent update on bargaining
10. New Business / Open forum:
- Scheduling AGM - More consideration of other events such as EGBC events, PIPSC training to avoid conflicts and maximize AGM participation.
- NR Classification standard - Outdated and needs to be taken to TB for review (through Bargaining and consultation team)
- EGBC registration requirements: Few of the members are concerned about the enforcement of this requirement for federal engineers. National NR executive team is engaging the matter with Engineers Canada for solution for all federal engineers.
11. Dinner: Concurrently dinner was served during the presentations
12. Adjourn: Motion to adjourn the meeting was moved by Sunny Wang and seconded by Clint Hoffman at 7:45pm