November 6, 2017
Quinte Branch Executive Meeting Minutes
Held in Belleville November 6, 2017
In Attendance:
Debbie Butler President
Bevin Stephenson Treasurer
Doug Austin Member-at-Large
Hazra Hosein Member-at-Large
Dan Weaver Member-at-Large
Steve Ovenden Member-at-Large
Regrets:
Glenn Maxwell Vice-President
Sherri-Ann Cochrane Member-at-Large
Angie Gmitro Member-at-Large
1. Opening Remarks
The meeting was opened at 5:13 pm.
Action By : President
2. Agenda Approval
Motion to Approve – Steve Ovenden
Seconded by – Dan Weaver
Action By : President
3. Previous Minutes
No Business arising from the minutes.
Motion to approve – Deb Butler
Seconded by – Bevin Stephenson
4. Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer’s report was delivered.
Action By : President
5. New Business
a) Co-ordination of Quinte Branch AGM
The date and location of the Quinte Branch Annual General Meeting was confirmed to be Jan 16, 2018 at the Fairfield Inn and Suites 407 Front Street Belleville. Meet and greet from 5 – 6pm. Executive to arrive 3:30 for set up. Dan will bring pop leftover from lunch ‘n learn. Catered buffet from hotel at $26 per person with 25 ppl min. How to handle no shows?
Deb to send menu out to exec for food choices. Price is good. Glenn to be asked for swag, purchase additional with branch funds. Ideas: scarves, water bottles, mugs, backpacks, etc. Have a few really nice items as door prizes: backpacks, laptop bag, chargers. Deb to investigate options. Bevin to look into bank balance and funding cap, advise how much we need to spend before end of year to receive full allowance.
Guest Speakers:
To avoid political this year. Topic ideas: bargaining, sick leave, Phoenix. Potentially, Dean Corda (use for CS AGM instead), Bill Scriver via webinar.
President Butler to coordinate.
b) PIPSC AGM
Resolution F4 made it in. Roughly 110 delegates to the CLC convention at cost of $500K every 3 years. We should be sending members to be part of it.
CS Budget – no concerns.
Resolution F7 – no supported, discussion that there does not appear to be an equality issue at this time.
Branch was not offered seat this year, however Dan Weaver thinks he is attending.
6. Round Table
President Butler advised that CS survey to be sent out soon on bargaining items.
CRA got better contract that other groups but we had no “me-too” clause in place.
7. Adjournment
Motion to adjourn at 6:38 pm by Steve Ovenden.