UVic Executive PEA Meeting<\/p>\n
July 9, 2014<\/p>\n
Career Services Board Room, 12:00 \u2013 1:30 pm<\/p>\n
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Attending:\u00a0 John Foxgord, Abhinav Rav, Susan Dempsey, Melissa Doyle, Vincent Connor, Chandra Beaveridge, Melissa Moroz<\/p>\n
Guest: Matt Greeno from UVic Sustainability Office<\/p>\n
Regrets: Emma Carter, Sheryl Karras<\/p>\n
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1. Appointment of minute taker<\/b>:\u00a0Susan Dempsey<\/p>\n
2. Motion to approve the agenda<\/b>:\u00a0AR\/VC carried<\/p>\n
3. Approve minutes<\/b><\/p>\n
3.1 Motion to approve minutes for June 11th 2014\u00a0 VC\/MD carried<\/p>\n
4. Labour Relations Officer<\/b> (Moroz):<\/p>\n
Melissa shared information on bargaining.\u00a0 There are a number of outstanding complex items.<\/p>\n
Suggestion made to organize another meeting for the members in the next week or so.\u00a0 Vincent will check out availability of Cadboro Commons, preferably Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday 12 \u2013 1.\u00a0 Melissa M will draft notice to members.<\/p>\n
Melissa also shared information about some restructuring and layoffs.<\/p>\n
5. Urgent Business or to be otherwise assigned:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
5.1 Divestment discussion (guest Matt Greeno)<\/p>\n
Matt gave the executive a background on the divestment issue.\u00a0 He is part of a working group of PEA members interested in looking at divesting pension money from investment in fossil fuels.\u00a0 Support is building; the Faculty Association has voted in favour of this divestment from fossil fuel investment.\u00a0 Matt is requesting that Executive approve using UVic PEA website to share information and find out if there is support for PEA requesting divestment.<\/p>\n
Moved that the Executive approve moving forward of the divestment initiative.\u00a0 The objective of this initiative is to post on the PEA.org website the proposed letter to the Pension Trustees and University Foundation.<\/p>\n
The plan involves engaging members in information seminars in consideration of a possible vote regarding divestment, similar to that which occurred with the Faculty Association.<\/p>\n
VC\/SD all in favour<\/p>\n
Vincent offered to consider the position of UVic Executive Liaison to the divestment working group.\u00a0 AR\/MD all in favour<\/p>\n
5.2 Scheduling our annual retreat Bring Forward<\/p>\n
5.3 June 26th<\/sup><\/span> Pond Party debrief<\/p>\n 60 members attended.\u00a0 Beautiful weather.\u00a0 Suggestions for next party:\u00a0 music louder to be heard outside; invite people to come inside before introducing exec and staff.<\/p>\n \n 6. Reports<\/b><\/p>\n 6.1 Treasurer (Connor):<\/p>\n Coast Cap Account:\u00a0 $5759.83; received refund of $1112.48 for last bargaining meeting with the members, to be deposited; FAST account $5264.10 soon depleted by the balance for the pond party $3293.00<\/p>\n 6.2 Chapter Committees<\/p>\n 6.2.1 Local Representatives (Connor):\u00a0Vincent is in the process of recovering old HFCS cards from local reps to be replaced by new cards for the purpose of meeting with members<\/p>\n 6.3.2 Seminars(Karras): \u00a0NTR<\/p>\n 6.3.3 Appointments (Connor\/Dempsey):\u00a0appointment draft re: website restructuring.\u00a0 To be sent out by Vincent.<\/p>\n 6.3.4 Bargaining Committee (Karras):\u00a0see report from Melissa Moroz<\/p>\n 6.3.5 Website reconstruction (Haman): \u00a0\u00a0Cliff will get started when he returns from holidays.<\/p>\n 6.4 Joint Committees<\/p>\n 6.4.1 Association\/University Committee (Foxgord):\u00a0 NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.2 Benefits Committee (Doyle): NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.3 Job Evaluation Appeals Committee (Connor\/Dempsey): \u00a0 NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.4 Employment Equity Advisory Working Group (Carter):\u00a0 NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.5 Educational Equity Advisory Group (Dempsey):\u00a0 NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.6 Mental Health Task Force (Fagan):\u00a0(May minutes attached)<\/p>\n Highlights:\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Mental Illness Awareness week, October 5-11;\u00a0 OOSITS\u00a0 (Out of the Shadows \u2026 event) Wednesday, October 15; Student Mental Health Strategy to be launched at OOSITS<\/p>\n 6.4.7 Campus Planning Committee (Karras): NTR<\/p>\n 6.4.8 Central ProD (Seager):<\/p>\n Amendments to Central Pro D returned from AU Committee.\u00a0 Recommendations should go ahead as per Committee. People who have been laid off should still be able to access funds for courses they have taken during notice period and possibly during recall period.\u00a0 John F will follow up.<\/p>\n 6.5 External Committees<\/p>\n 6.5.1 Association Executive (Doyle):<\/p>\n Meeting was held on Monday July 7 by teleconference.\u00a0 Reviewed strategic plan.\u00a0 PGSD are now in observer status.\u00a0 ORL is now voting member.\u00a0 PGSD supporting BCTF and being supported by PEA.\u00a0 Giving Back program call for nominations will come out in the Fall.<\/p>\n 7. Business Arising:\u00a0 <\/b>NTR\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n 8. Adjournment<\/b>.\u00a0 Moved by VC<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UVic Executive PEA Meeting July 9, 2014 Career Services Board Room, 12:00 \u2013 1:30 pm Attending:\u00a0 John Foxgord, Abhinav Rav, Susan Dempsey, Melissa Doyle, Vincent Connor, Chandra Beaveridge, Melissa Moroz Guest: Matt Greeno from UVic Sustainability Office Regrets: Emma Carter, Sheryl Karras 1. Appointment of minute taker:\u00a0Susan Dempsey 2. Motion to approve the agenda:\u00a0AR\/VC carried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/PEA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}