Professional Employees Association
Chapter Executive Meeting
Minutes of meeting held 13 May 2005 starting at 11:45am in HSD 260
Present: Bill McGhee (Chair), Vincent Connor, Tom Gore, John Foxgord, Sheryl Karras, Tony Bute (Staff Officer)
Regrets: Bert Klatt, John Hall, Inez St. Denis
1. Appointment of minute taker – Sheryl Karras
2. Approval of the agenda
Motion (M/S/C)
3. Approval of the minutes of April 8 2005
Motion (M/S/C)
4. Urgent Business:
41 New Local Rep: Motion to appoint Laurie Keenan as LR for Career, Counselling Services and Resource Centre for Students with a Disability and Gordon Dash as LR for Campus Security and Bookstore. (Gore) (M/S/C)
42 Discussed a memo from CUPE regarding the current state of bargaining.
43 New mileage rate for business travel effective 1 June 2005. The mileage rate has increased from .35/km to .39/km.
44 Seminars Committee: Motion to appoint Brenda Scott and Karen Walker as new members of the Seminars Committee. (Connor) (M/S/C)
45 Discussion of convention resolutions
5. Chair’s Remarks and Correspondence
51 Correspondence: PEA members are well represented in the BOG staff representative ballot, all PEA members are encouraged to vote.
6. Reports:
61 Treasurer (Vincent) – Update of accounts: EASY Balance: $1384.00 and Savings Balance: $2093.00
62 Staff Officer (Tony) – PEA was invited to participate on a newly formed HR Committee to address mental health issues with staff. Motion to appoint Tony Bute as the PEA representative on the HR Mental Health Committee. (M/S/C)
63 Chapter Committees
a. Local Representatives (Tom) – 12 April Terrie Conway from HR gave a presentation to the Local Reps on the new structure of HR.
b. Seminars Committee – The most recent seminar (11 April) was conducted by Bill Danser where he lead a bird watching walk in and around the campus.
64 Joint Committees
a. A/U Committee – The committee met on May 11th and discussed the following topics: mileage allowance, new HR Committee, performance evaluations, temporary appointments and Professional Development applications.
b. Benefits Committee – Morag MacNeil will rejoin the Benefits Committee
c. J/E Committee (Tony) – The executive was briefed on the progress of J/E.
d. Employment EHRWG – NTR
e. Education EHRWG – The committee met on April 27th, two task groups were formed one to address how to reach a wider audience and raise awareness and the second to develop a work plan for the upcoming year.
f. Campus Planning Committee – Tom updated the executive on the ongoing campus planning communications.
g. Project Nova Steering Committee – There is on-going work on portal development related to Nova.
65 External Committees
a. Association Executive – NTR
7. Business Arising
1 June – HR will host an Information Seminar for Managers.
8. Other Business
9. Adjournment – 1:45 pm
Next meeting: UVic PEA Chapter Executive Friday 10 June 2005 11:30 am – 1:30 pm HHB120