March 2022 General Membership Meeting

March 2022

General Membership Meeting

You must register in advance for this meeting.

Registration Deadline: Friday March 25 @10am

 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsf-qorzsqGdd3bg_Af7qwn20GVCUHVAS0

*Due to the information needed to be sent to participants, and the time required to authenticate registrations, all participants must register by the deadline above. *Admission to the meeting will close fifteen (15) minutes from the start of the meeting. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  

AGENDA FOR THE MARCH GMM:

  1. Land Acknowledgment
  2. Reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action
  3. Reading of new members
  4. Reading of the previous meeting’s minutes
  5. Business arising out of the minutes
  6. Financials
  7. New Business:
  8. Nominations and elections
    1. BY-ELECTION – Health & Safety Director (description on reverse)
    2. BY-ELECTION – Organizing Director/Tyler (description on reverse)
    3. BY-ELECTION – Recoding Secretary By-laws Chair(description on reverse)
    4. Balloting Committee (8)
    5. Health & Safety Committee (minimum 9)
    6. Education Committee (8)
    7. Organizing Committee (8)
    8. Publications Committee (8)
    9. Regional Conference Delegates Alternate (1)
  9. Executive Committee Motions
  10.  Unfinished business
  11. Correspondence
  12. Executive and Committee Reports
  13. Good and Welfare
  14. Adjournment

In Solidarity,

Blair Bancroft

A/President 

**Sign Language Interpreters have been confirmed.

6.8 THE HEALTH AND SAFETY DIRECTOR:

A.Shall be an elected officer and voting member of the Executive Committee and shall be the Chairperson of the Health and Safety Committee.

B. Shall coordinate the activities of the Health and Safety Committee.

C. Shall report to the Executive Committee 

6.9 THE ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR AND TYLER: 

 A Shall be an elected officer and voting member of the Executive Committee.

 B Shall maintain the membership attendance book for Executive Committee, General Membership and Special Meetings. 

 C Shall maintain a monthly listing of members eligible to run for office in the Local, as set out in Article 9. 

 D Shall check membership credentials at all General Membership and Special Meetings. 

E Shall maintain order at meetings as requested from the Chair. F Shall audit attendance at meetings to see that a quorum is maintained. 

G Shall chair the Organization Committee. 

H Shall assist the Local Secretary-Treasurer as required. 

6.10 THE RECORDING SECRETARY/BY-LAWS CHAIR: 

 A Shall be an elected officer and voting member of the Executive Committee. 

B Shall take the minutes of all Executive Committee, General Membership and Special Meetings of the Local. 

C Shall be the Chair of the By-laws Committee. 

ARTICLE 9 NOMINATIONS, ELECTIONS AND VOTING PROCEDURE 

9.1 D  Candidates must be a member in good standing and must have attended at least three (3) of the General Membership Meetings in the twelve (12) months prior to and inclusive of the close of nominations. Subject to Article 9.10 A. and 10.7