2025 Annual Meeting and Professional Development Conference
May 13th, 2025
The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Regulatory Bylaws requires that the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan be held in the first six months of each year, so it is customarily held on the first Saturday in May. This year’s events were a professional development conference on Friday with the theme Designing for the Future, followed by the president’s reception and past presidents dinner that evening and the annual meeting on Saturday morning. Nearly 700 APEGS registrants participated in person or virtually at Friday’s keynote and professional development presentations.
The 95th annual meeting of the association was called to order in person and virtually at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 3, 2025, with 220 voting members in attendance — 117 in person and 103 virtually. The business of the meeting included:
- Minutes from the May 4, 2024 annual meeting
- Business arising from the minutes
- Message from the president
- Reports from Executive Director and Registrar, Public Appointees
- One bylaw amendment
- Audited financial statements
- New business
- 2025 election results
- Council induction
The 2024 annual report is available at https://www.apegs.ca/about/publications/annual-reports .
APEGS engaged Insightrix Research Inc., an independent third-party research firm, to conduct the 2025 council elections. Insightrix issued ballots on March 10, 2025, and polling day was on April 7, 2025. The Executive Director and Registrar reported that the total number of votes cast was 1,806 (all electronic, none by mail), being 11.25% of the 16,055 total ballots issued.
To view all council members, go to https://www.apegs.ca/about/apegs-governance/current-council-members.
Bylaw Amendments
At the annual meeting on May 3, 2025, the members in attendance passed motions to amend the following from The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Regulatory Bylaws:
- Administrative Bylaw 6(1) – Banking and financial
The amendment increases the authorization values of financial commitments and payments for employees and officers of the association. This change is intended to be more reflective of modern costs and make more effective use of the officers’ time, given that they are volunteers.
Section 6(1) of the Administrative Bylaws outlines authorization of employees and officers to approve financial commitments and authorize payments. Each year at the June council meeting, a new motion is put forward to outline the names of the individuals who are in the role for the year, along with the values that align with 6(1) of the Administrative Bylaws.
The bylaw amendment increases the first approval authorization from $6,000 to $30,000, the second authorization from $15,000 to $100,000, and the last authorization from greater than $15,000 to greater than $100,000. As the approval values will be increased, it was also proposed that the second approval will require dual authorization. This change means that up to $100,000 can be approved in-house and provides additional oversight.