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Council Notes
January 26th, 2022
The APEGS Council held an in-person meeting with the option to participate virtually on Dec. 2 and 3, 2021 in Regina, Sask. The meeting was attended by Council and the Directors to Engineers Canada and Geoscientists Canada. The next Council meeting will be on Feb. 3 and 4, 2022 in-person in Saskatoon. Microsoft Teams will be made available for those unable to attend in-person.
Council received the following items:
- Executive Committee minutes of November 19, 2021
- Governance Board minutes of November 4, 2021
- Professionalism Board minutes of November 18, 2021
- Regulatory Board minutes of November 9, 2021
- Investigation Committee (Abridged) minutes of November 19, 2021
- Discipline Committee minutes of November 4, 2021
- Corporate Registrant Task Group minutes of October 5 and November 17, 2021
- Constituent Society Relationships Task Group minutes of November 17, 2021
- Financial Statements – August, September and October 2021
- Registrar’s Report and Statistics and Applications Received – September and October 2021
- Regina Engineering Society report
- Saskatoon Engineering Society report
- Moose Jaw Engineering Society report
- Saskatchewan Geological Society report
- CIM Saskatoon GeoSection report
- ACEC-SK report
- Engineers Canada report
- Geoscientists Canada report
Council approved the following motions:
- Accept the 2022 budget.
- Introduce a social media program.
- Reduce the number of print issues of The Professional Edge and introduce monthly e-bulletins.
- Select Ernest Barber as the Saskatchewan representative to Engineers Canada for their consideration.
- Accept the government relations strategy and policy.
- Amend the council meeting cycle to be quarterly with one special meeting in March to approve the audited financial statements.
- Offer the National Professional Practice Exam (NPPE) five times a year. The exam will be 110 multiple choice questions. The time to take the exam will be 2.5 hours.
- Offer the current available seminar content online five times a year until January 1, 2023 to allow Professional Practice Exam Committee (PPEC) to determine the best options for the future of the seminar.
- Amend the Professional Practice Exam policy 1.0 to reflect the changes approved in the two above bullets.
- Accept life member applications
- Amend Equity and Diversity Committee terms of reference.
- Investigate the conduct of the named person as outlined in a document submitted by an anonymous source at the University of Regina.
- Revise Executive Committee terms of reference.
- Accept the Corporate Registrant Task Group work plan.
- Appoint Dustin Unger, P.Eng., Terry Werbovetski, P.Eng., and Sarah Yeo, Engineer-in-Training to the Constituent Society Relationships Task Group.
- Amend student funding and student funding procedures.
- Recommend Ian Sloman to the Engineers Canada Qualification’s Board Nominating Committee as the Saskatchewan and Manitoba CEQB representative for a third and final three-year term.