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Meeting Details

 

Venue: Whitespot (near Coal Harbour)

1616 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6G 3G1

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm

 

Name

Role

Term

Attendance

Ted Molyneux (TM)

President

Fall 2018

✔

Kathy Kerr (KH)

Vice President

Fall 2018

 

Tim Powers (TP)

Treasurer

Fall 2018

✔

Philip Tam (PT)

Secretary

Fall 2019

✔

Geoff Kendell (GK)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2018

 

Jean Laberge (JL)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2019

✔

Behzad Mehrabadi (BM)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2019

✔

Terry Peters (TPe)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2018

✔

Ervin Selak (ES)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2019

✔

Fiona Wong (FW)

Member-at-Large

Fall 2020

 

Alex Bevan

Member-at-Large

Fall 2020

 

 

 

Agenda Items

 

ITEM

TOPIC

ACTION
  1. 1

Meeting Call to order

 
  1.  

Called to order at 5:30pm by TM

 
  1.  

Approval of Agenda

 
  1.  

Approval of agenda.

M/S: TP/BM, Carried.

 
  1.  

Approval of Draft minutes

 
  1.  

Approval of draft minutes (#47) from Thursday September 27, 2018.

M/S: TM/BM, Carried.

 
  1.  

New Business Arising

 
  1.  

 

 
  1.  

 

 
  1.  

Vancouver Branch President’s Report

 
  1.  

The current priorities are:

  • Setting up the Branch AGM
  • Mingler Event
  • Movie Night Event

 
  1.  

Recap from Steve Hindle’s Lunch and Learn event

  • Little support from the PIPSC office and Steve Hindle’s office
  • Poster was voluntary sent to the communication team, process took 2 weeks.
  • Difficulties encountered on the venue booking process.
  • Event can be reimbursed through a request made to Peter McDougall, does not need to come out of Branch’s budget.

 

 

Simone step down, replacement can only be done at AGM.

Karen stepping down, can be appointed at the Branch’s discretion.

 
  1.  

Recap from John Staric’s Lunch and Learn event

  • Event went relatively well.
  • Communications issues encountered with regards to email addresses.

 
  1.  

401 Burrard SP sub-group

  • TM attended a meeting to provide an update on what the branch is doing.

 
  1. 5

Guest Speakers

 
  1.  

No guest present, not applicable at this meeting.

 
  1.  

Treasurer’s Report

 
  1.  

Treasury Report provided.

 
  1.  

Vancouver Branch’s Executive Positions

 
  1.  

The following executive terms will be over and is open for re-election at the upcoming AGM:

  • President
  • Vice-President
  • Treasurer
  • Two (2) Members-at-Large

 
  1.  

Events: Mingler and Movie Night

 
  1.  

Mingler:

To be deferred to next year, tentatively Feb-Mar 2019.

Note: Posting has to be sent to HQ 1 month prior to event.

 
  1.  

Movie Night:

Event deferred, to be tabled at the next meeting.

 
  1.  

Vancouver Branch AGM

 
  1.  

Dec 3rd, 2018 (Monday) at the Holiday Inn, Vancouver

4:30pm cash bar

29 registered to-date (65 cap for now)

Advertise (All)

Hotel contact 65 attendance (JL)

Guest: Rob and Don

Regional Office: Guest (TM check with Ernie)

Elections committee: 4 of us (2019)

20 copies of … (BM)

20 copies of the Treasury Report (TP)

Tickets for Prices (TP)

Gifts (TP)

Gmail account (TP)

Door (TPe)

Chair (TM)

 
  1.  

 

 
  1.  

PIPSC AGM

 
  1.  

Deferred to the board for a vote (professionals canada)

Increase # of delegates by 200 (AFS Motion), win by a larger margin

 
  1.  

Next Meeting

 
  1.  

Tentatively: January 23rd, 2019 Venue: TBC

5pm

 
  1.  

Adjournment

 
  1.  

Meeting adjourned at 7:53 pm.

M/S: TPe/JL, Carried.

 
Published on 10 December 2019