Peace River Branch
Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, August 7, 2001

The Focus Corporation Limited, Grande Prairie
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Report Date: August 8, 2001
Recorder: Sylvain Cadieux


Present:

Heidi Yang - Chairman - Weyerhaeuser
Lisa Hall - Vice Chairman - Weyerhaeuser
Sylvain Cadieux - Secretary - Focus Intec
Cheri Berns - Treasurer - Mcelhanney Land Surveys Ltd.
Jason Firmrite - Member - Fimrite Engineers Inc.
Trent Mclaughlin - Outreach - J.R. Paine & Associates
Jim Davis - Member - Davis Engineering

ITEM

DESCRIPTION

ACTION BY

1.0

Minutes of the last meeting was moved to be accept as written by Cheri and 2nd by Lisa.

Cheri

2.0

Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer need to go and get signing authority at the bank

Cheri, Heidi and Lisa

3.0

Trent McLaughlin accepted the position of Outreach Coordinator.

Trent

4.0 APEGGA head office was contacted and asked to send out Mentoring Booklets to all E.I.T.'s to Peace Region members.
Heidi

5.0

Jim Davis accepted the responsibility to coordinate the P.D. day event with the help of Darwin.

Jim

6.0

Jeanne at APEGGA head office is to be contacted and asked to provide copies of the Outreach Program Information Packages. Also to ask if this information can be provided on the APEGGA website.

Trent

7.0

Reviewed Draft Business Plan and marked up for revision. Plan to be revised and resubmitted to executive members.

Sylvain

8.0

Budget Review / Revision

  • Project Budget of $7875 was not accepted by Len Shrimpton
  • We have reviewed the budget and have decided to break even on some events and to raise event admission fees where feasible. The following is the net budget for each event: ($0 = break even)
    Wine tasting - $0
    Career Expo - $100
    Technical night - $350
    Student night - $200
    PDD - $1000
    Field Trip - $150
    Golf - $0
    Field trip - $150
    Student Night - $500
    Travel, exec Comm, stationary etc - $680
  • Jim to contact Darwin and get a budget of the last P.D. day event for Cheri.
  • Contact Len Shrimpton to meet during the Grande Prairie Council Meeting on September 13 & 14.

Cheri

9.0

Sylvain moved that revised Business Plan and Budget be revised as discussed. 2nd by Jim

Sylvain

10.0 Jim moved that a budget of $350 be provided for our executive appreciation nights. 2nd by Lisa.
Jim
11.0 Cheri moved that the executive members meet on every 1st Tuesday of every month. (Except for the month of January, which will be the 2nd Tuesday) 2nd by Jim.
Cheri
12.0 Lacey deKoc, Branch President of ASET, has invited an APEGGA member to attend there September 12 meeting. Heidi will be attending.
Heidi
13.0 We are to invite Lacey deKoc to our September 4th branch meeting.
Heidi
14.0 Council meeting in Grande Prairie Sept 13 and 14. Executive members are encouraged to go to the BBQ and the VIP luncheon.
· BBQ at 6-8 Sept 13
· VIP luncheon 12-2 Sept 14
Executive Members
15.0 Next meeting will be Tuesday September 4th, Focus, 7 pm start.
16.0 Lisa moved to adjourn the meeting
Lisa