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Meeting Details |
Venue: Whitespot (near Coal Harbour)
1616 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6G 3G1
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019
Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm
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Name |
Role |
Term |
Attendance |
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Ted Molyneux (TM) |
President |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Kathy Kerr (KK) |
Vice President |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Tim Powers (TP) |
Treasurer |
Fall 2020 |
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Philip Tam (PT) |
Secretary |
Fall 2019 |
✔ |
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Geoff Kendell (GK) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Jean Laberge (JL) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2019 |
✔ |
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Behzad Mehrabadi (BM) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2019 |
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Terry Peters (TPe) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Ervin Selak (ES) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2019 |
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Fiona Wong (FW) |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Alex Bevan |
Member-at-Large |
Fall 2020 |
✔ |
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Agenda Items |
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TOPIC |
ACTION |
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Welcome and Meeting Call to Order |
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Called to order at 5:30pm by TM. |
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Approval of the Agenda |
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Amendment to agenda include the following:
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Approval of amended agenda. M/S: TP/TM, Carried. |
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Approval of Draft Minutes (#49) |
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Approval of amended draft minutes (#49) from Tuesday, January 29, 2019. M/S: TP/KH, Carried. |
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New Business Arising |
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ES was absent, no further update on FB page at this time. |
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Suggesting to Robert MacDonald to nominate a RCMP member as a Regional Council Delegate. |
TM |
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Kathy to develop an event planning guide, investigate on updating/posting the events onto the website. Coordinate with AB on the google calendar invites as well. Note: There is a distinction between an “internal” vs “external” calendar. |
KK / AB |
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Notify the Stewards that VBE will financially support their events. TM to present at the Stewart’s Council (Oct 18 to 19) Add a reminder to Steward’s Council’s event. |
AB |
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Vancouver Branch President’s Report |
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Updated list of executives was submitted to Patricia. |
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PIPSC.CA email account is required for trip planning, setup website will be sent to VBE. |
PT |
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Treasurer’s Report |
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Treasury Report provided. |
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Confirm with TP on our region’s membership tally. |
TM |
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2019 BC Regional Council (Resolution) |
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Be it resolved that all BC/Yukon region delegates be seated with the Executive Director (Robert MacDonald). |
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Hospitality suite booking. |
TM |
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Lunch booking for 16 delegate on May 31. |
TPe/GK |
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2019 BC Regional Council (Delegate Selection) |
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RC will be hosted in Burnaby (May 31 to Jun 1).
16 spots are allowed for 2019. VBE should solicit/nominate 5 more members as there are 11 members in the executive group. Criteria consideration as follows:
Note: Additional alternates should be considered in the event that the original nomination is lost. |
All |
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2019 PIPSC AGM (Delegate Selection) |
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RC will be hosted in Gatineau (Nov 8 to 9).
7 spots are allowed for 2019. Considering the attendance from the previous email, the potential nominations are to be submitted as follow:
Note: Additional alternates should be considered in the event that the original nomination is unavailable.
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TM |
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Distribute a prior email to inform about the seating arrangement at the AGM. |
TM |
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Update on Young Professional (YP) Panel by Fiona |
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The YP Panel was held on March 7, 2019 to celebrate Women’s Day. The event is “Women in Transport Canada” showcasing 5 women working under a non-traditional role (ie. Science, Engineering, Inspection and Leadership). Approximately 15 people physically attended this 1-hour event which was also broadcasted throughout the country. The audience consists mostly of young professionals that is new to Transport Canada.
Discussions revolved around gender equality/parity, where there is a theme of “Balance for Better”. The general consensus is that equality has improved compared to 10 years ago, continuous improvement is still required for the women in the work place. Opportunity should be given to everybody regardless of their personal/family choices (ie. Work/Life balance, caring for a child, etc). |
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2019 Events |
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YP Evening (Concept) suggested by ES. |
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Movie Event Summer Time = Kids are off Retrieve name of contact at NW, present the details and movie list at the next meeting. |
JL |
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Evenbrite was raised as a tool to monitor attendees, account setup for the next meeting. |
FW |
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Baseball event was a disappointment because people did not commit to attending. |
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Reach out to a recognized person to host a speaker’s event. To brainstorm such individual. Labour-union or inspirational theme preferred. All to research and discuss at the next meeting. |
All |
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TM to reach out to the Headquarters for ideas |
TM |
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Vancouver Branch AGM |
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Suggestion to move the AGM over to the month of January. Rational is have the ability to approve the finances and proposed budgets. To be further discussed at the next meeting. |
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VBE Positions |
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Succession planning to be discussed at the next meeting. |
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Next Meeting |
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Tentatively: April 25, 2019 Venue: TBC 5pm |
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Adjournment |
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Meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm. M/S: PT/AB, Carried. |
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