Professional Employees Association Annual General Meeting November 14, 1997 Clearihue A307 12 noon - 1:30 pm. (47 present) Chair: Glen Darling, President President, UVic PEA Chapter Welcome by Glen Darling. 1. Approval of Agenda MOTION: (McGowan/Smith) "That the agenda be approved as amended" CARRIED 2. Approval of Minutes Minutes from the Annual General Meeting of November 14, 1996 and the Annual General Meeting of October 10, 1997. MOTION: (McGowan/McNeil) "That the minutes be accepted as circulated" CARRIED Please see minutes at: https://web.uvic.ca/uvicpea/archives/agm96/AGM96.htm & https://web.uvic.ca/uvicpea/archives/agm97/CGM97.htm 3. PEA 1997 Executive Reports 3.1 President's Report Report read by Darling. Report is posted on PEA web page at: https://web.uvic.ca/uvicpea/archives/agm97/pres97.htm MOTION (Nightingale/Lund) "That the President's Report be accepted as circulated". CARRIED 3.2 Treasurer's Report Chappell reports that PEA office pays for operational expenses and that our UVic account has charges totaling $76.00. UVic PEA grant (2% of total fees) was $2,078.20. Total expenditures for this fiscal year were $155.17. Pacific Coast Savings account balance stands at $1,923.81. Report is posted on PEA web page at: https://web.uvic.ca/uvicpea/archives/agm97/tres97.htm MOTION: (Thornton/Aneer) "That the report be accepted as delivered" CARRIED 3.3 Secretary's Report O'Rourke referred to the written report. Report is posted on PEA web page at: https://web.uvic.ca/uvicpea/archives/agm97/sec97.htm MOTION (McGowan/Little) "That the Secretary's report be accepted as circulated".CARRIED 3.4 Janice Brown was acknowledged and recognized for her re-election to the Provincial PEA Executive 4. Committee Reports 4.1 Local Representatives Committee Report - Rosalie Phillips List distributed by Phillips. Phillips acknowledges Russ Smith who replaced by Don Lovell. Joanne Thomas replaced by Jennifer Margison. Lance replaced by Bonnie Geddick. List will be posted on the web site for reference. MOTION: (Gore/McGowan) "That the Local Representatives Committee report be accepted as circulated". CARRIED No additional reports 5. Election Committee Report McGowan thanks his committee (Janice Brown and Ludgard de Decker) and acknowledges the great assistance of the Peggy Faulds and Carolyn Ward (PEA office) Results Elected for 2 year term: Jane Kovach 105 Maggie Little 94 Rosalie Phillips 105 Elected for 1 year term: Dick Chappell 92 Martin Milner 93 Ian Thornton 81 Not elected: Berenice Wood 78 119 ballots, 1 spoiled MOTION: (McCowan and Brown) "That the report be accepted and the ballots be destroyed" CARRIED 6. Election of Election Committee Darling calls for volunteers to the 1998 Elections Committee. Kim McGowan, Ludgaard de Decker, Mary O'Rourke volunteer. Darling notes that Executive will appoint other members. MOTION: (Thornton/Smith) "That these members be accepted" CARRIED 7. Discussion about Job Evaluation Darling provides background - mandated by collective agreement and describes general definition of job evaluation. Darling refers to inequities in UVic job groups and problems with CUPE job evaluation and possible problems this endeavor could precipitate. Darling adds that problems arise as employees groups anticipate salary increases as a result of being reclassified. Darling adds that Janice Brown, Megan Hill and Elaine Doyle on the committee and that Personnel wants the JE to go ahead. Many members spoke to the issue and there was a broad discussion of this topic. MOTION (McGowan/Margison) "That we move ahead to establish a plan" MOTION TO AMEND (McGowan/Thornton) "That we continue to explore the feasibility of establishing a job evaluation plan" CARRIED Further discussion ensued. Darling prepared to call the question and clarified that the motion on the floor is: "That we continue to explore the feasibility of establishing a job evaluation plan". The motion CARRIED. 8. Other Pension Plan elections. Dick Chappell is running to represent PEA. Darling encourages members to vote for Dick. MOTION: (McGowan) "That we adjourn" CARRIED
