Ottawa Centreville Branch Annual General Meeting Minutes

June 15, 2017

Location: Sheraton Hotel-Rideau Room
150 Albert Street, Ottawa

Agenda Item

Discussion

Action

Call to Order

Brian announced quorum and called the meeting to order at 5:34 PM.

Brian Hassall

Brian introduced the executive by a roll call:  Zul Nanji, Allan Laaksonen, Susan Amog-Hassall, Josée Stone, Abraham Garcia, Andrew Wigmore, Michael Kenny, Michelle Tran, Jaclyn Skaff and Bryan Adderley who could not attend.

Brian introduced the following guests:

From the NCR board of Directors

Del Dickson

Greg Scriver

Peter M. Taticek

From the AFS Group

Ian Tait – Headquarters Regional Representative

Mark Meunch – CS - Representative

Allaudin Alibhai – CS HQ Regional Representative

The Elections Committee

Wayne Lee – Retired members guild

Terry Sing – Retired members guild

Stacy McLaren – NCR Outreach Coordinator

Agenda

The agenda was provided in advance.

Zul Nanji made a motion to approve the agenda.

Seconded by Michelle Tran.

The agenda was approved

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Approval of Previous Minutes

The previous 2016 AGM meeting minutes were posted on the PIPSC web page and copies were provided.

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Motion to approve by Josée Stone.

Seconded by Allan Laaksonen.

Meeting minutes were approved.

Business Arising from Previous Planning Minutes

Brian discussed the previous minutes and asked if there was any business arising from them.

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There was no business arising from the previous minutes

Elections

Brian turned the meeting over the meeting Terry Sing the Chair of the Elections Committee. The elections committee was composed of Terry Sing, Wayne Lee and Stacy McLaren. There were 6 open positions.

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Terry asked for nominations:

There were two email nominations for the executive:

Randy Ooman and

Harrold Marquette.

The following people were nominated from the floor:

Susan Amog Hassall

Michelle Tran

Josée Stone

Nick Watson

Zul Nanji

Michael Kenny

Andrew Wigmore

Muhammad Alam

Ken Cound

Terry Sing gave control of the meeting back to Brian at 6:36 and he would determine the results of the voting.

President’s Report

Brian Hassall gave a recap of the events that were held by the Ottawa Centreville Branch during the year.

Brian stated the OCB had a busy year. In September we had a barbeques for over 400 members.

Brian Hassall

We had a steward appreciation event in September for over 60 stewards and members.

We had a member appreciation event at the Wave Pool in Gloucester in April for members and their families that was well attended.

The OCB had a very active training committee providing several retirements sessions in English and French.

In addition we had several collective coffee breaks.

The OCB was also involved in the Pride Day and Labour Day parades.

A number of OCB members attended the PIPSC AGM in November and both the NCR Regional Council and the NCR Steward Council.

Brian commended Ian Tait for doing over a 1000 claims for members affected by Phoenix.

With respect to collective bargaining the AFS group and NUREG have not ratified a contract. Ian Tait will talk about that later in a presentation.

In addition there has been concern about Bill C27. This is an important bill to change legislation so that it will be easier for the employer to change defined benefit pension plans into target benefit plans. Greg Scriver will talk about that later in the evening.

Brian also introduced and thanked the volunteers who helped out at the registration table; Lee Cunningham, Raj Darji, Art Iwinski and Susan Amog.

Treasurer’s Report

Abraham Garcia, OCB Treasurer presented the 2018 Branch budget and the 2016 Financial Statement.

He also thanked Michelle Tran for her work on the 2016 financial statements.

Abraham explained various line items in the budget and statement of funds and answered questions from the floor. He also explained the funding formula for the 6209 members in OCB.

Abraham

Garcia

There was a robust discussion on both the financial statements and on the budget.

Motion: to Approve 2016 Financial Statement 

M/S: Alex Lutien /Susan Amog  - Motion Carried

Motion: to Approve the 2018 Centreville Branch budget

M/S: Zul Nanji /Allan Laaksonen  - Motion Carried

Ratification of By-Laws

There were no changes to this year’s bylaws so no ratification was necessary.

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Speakers and Discussion – Del Dickson

Brian also introduced Del Dickson, PIPSC National Capital Region Director who talked about contributing to the PIPSC Legacy foundation and how important the contributions are for both the children and grandchildren of members and for the Boys and Girls clubs to whom scholarships are provided. He also challenged the NCR to try to win the Legacy Cup by trying to get the most donations to the Legacy Foundation.

Del Dickson

Ian Tait – Guest Speaker – AFS Bargaining

Ian Tait, Headquarters Regional Representative of the AFS group discussed the current round of bargaining from both an AFS perspective and a PIPSC perspective. He then provided a general update on bargaining issues and classification reform. The presentation will go on the PIPSC web site in the future.

Ian Tait

Greg Scriver

Guest Speaker – Bill C 27

Greg Scriver, NCR board of Director gave an update on activities at PIPSC National with respect to challenging bill C27. He explained how it could be used to change our defined benefit pension plans to targeted benefit plans where the risk is carried by the pensioners if the plans do not have enough assets.

Greg Scriver

There is an awareness campaign focusing on the risks to the employees and a campaign to stop the bill. He provided mail in cards to show our opposition to bill C 27.

Announcement of Election Results by Terry Sing

There were 136 ballots.

Terry Sing

The members elected to the OCB Executive in no particular order are:

 

Susan Amog Hassall

Michelle Tran

Josée Stone

Zul Nanji

Michael Kenny

Andrew Wigmore

Motion: to destroy the ballots M/S: Nanji/Wayne Lee

The ballots will be destroyed.

Round Table

Brian asked if there was any more business to be brought up at the AGM. There was none.

Brian

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Adjournment

Motion: to adjourn meeting by Susan Amog. Seconded by Allan Laaksonen.

Motion Carried - Meeting Adjourned at 8:22 PM

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