IT Ottawa Metro Sub-Group
March 27th, Meeting
In attendance:
Aleksandra Dukic
Stéphane Aubry
Brian Murray
Cheryl Jennings
O’Neil Brooke
Pierre Touchette
Catherine Keir
Vaden Ellsworth
Eric-Pascal Bourre
Meeting called to order 12:10
Mark Muench read the Land Acknowledgement
Mark Read the PIPSC equity Statement and asked that all members respect each other.
Mark Explained that the bylaw changes that had been made at a previous sub-group AGM had not gone through the BLPC. The minutes of that meeting had been shared with Finance to secure the annual allotment, but those minutes were never shared with BLPC. Therefore, they must go to BLPC. Mark asked Tony Goddard and Stephane Frechette to try and expedite those changes.
Mark explained that he was aware that the sub-group had a policy that after an election of members to the executive, they would have an election at their first meeting to fill the roles of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and members at large. This policy was widely known and had been accepted for a number of years. Mark employed the principle of Estopple (the principle which precludes a person from asserting something contrary to what is implied by a previous action or statement of that person or by a previous pertinent judicial determination) in order to ensure that the sub-group could fill the necessary positions and move forward with the business of the subgroup. The The positions were filled in the manner they had been for the past few elections. Mark noted that the bylaws to be changed as soon as possible to reflect what a previous sub-group AGM had agreed upon.
In the positions of President, Aleksandra, Pierre, and O’Neil ran. Aleksandra won with 5 of nine votes.
In the position of Vice President, Pierre and O’Neil ran. Pierre won with 8 of nine votes.
In the position of Treasurer, Brian was acclaimed.
In the position of Secretary, Cheryl and O’Neil ran. Cheryl won with 7 of nine votes.
Mark asked that the new executive please confirm with the absent members if they were still interested in being a member at large. They agreed that they would.
Mark offered to help the new executive with receiving executive training. All agreed it was a good idea.
At one point in the meeting, Mark reminded the executive of the Equity Policy and that any talk of corruption would not be tolerated.
Mark closed the meeting by congratulating the new executive.