Annual General Meeting
AGENDA
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY RETIREES ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
October 9, 2024
2:00 P.M. Engineering Building, G Block, 2nd Floor, Room 207 and by Zoom
1.0 President's Call to Order S. Evans
2.0 Welcome to new members.
3.0 Declaration of Quorum
4.0 Approval of Agenda
5.0 Approval of Minutes of 2023 AGM Attached to Agenda
6.0 Reports
6.1 President S. Evans
6.2 Treasurer/Membership A. Rauk
6.3 Program J. Lockyer
6.4 Life After Retirement (LAR) A. Pernal
6.5 E-Letter C. L. Le Navenec
6.6 Webmaster O. Malik
6.7 Keeping in Touch/Social (List of Deceased) C. Mills/G. Krivy
6.8 Past-President/Graduate College Report O. Malik
6.9 CURAC Liaison Report C. L. Le Navenec
7.0 Nomination and Election of 2023-2024 Executive Committee (Total = 12) O. Malik
President: Werner Becker
Vice-President and President-Elect: Maeve O'Beirne
Past President & Graduate College Rep.: Sheila Evans
Secretary: Kieth Dobson
Treasurer/Membership: Arvi Rauk
Program Director: Jocelyn Lockyer
E-Letter & CURAC Rep.: Sandra Hirst
LAR Editor: Linda leionard
Social/Keeping in Touch: Claire Mills
Webmaster: Vacant
Member-at-Large: Elaine McKiel
Member-at-Large: David B. Hogan
8.0 Other Business W. Becker
8.1 Changes to the Constitution and By-Laws S. Evans
- Rationale and Changes attached to Agenda
9.0 Adjournment
Speaker
Dr. Ken Barker, Professor Computer Science, Director ISPIA,speaking on:
“Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat to Cybersecurity and Privacy”.
MINUTES
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY RETIREES ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
OCTOBER 9TH, 2024
2:00 P.M. Engineering Building, G Block, 2nd Floor, Room 207 and by Zoom
1.
President's Call to Order
President Evans called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.
2.
Welcome to New Members
The Chair welcomed new and continuing members attending the meeting.
3.
Declaration of Quorum
A quorum was declared since over 15 members were present. The actual number was 25+ members in-person and on zoom.
4.
Approval of Agenda
Motion: (Latter/Becker)
CARRIED.
5.
Approval of Minutes of 2023 AGM
The Minutes had been available on the Association's website.
Motion: (Leonard/McKiel) CARRIED.
6.
Reports:
- President
- Treasurer/Membership
- Program
- Life After Retirement (LAR)
- E-Letter
- Webmaster
- Keeping in Touch/Social (List of Deceased)
- Past President and Graduate College Report
- CURAC Liaison Report
All Reports had been available on the Association's website and the Chair invited questions and a motion for approval.
Motion to accept all the Reports: (Latter/Becker)
CARRIED.
7.
Nomination and Election of 2024-2025 Executive Committee (Total = 12)
Evans presented the nominations since Malik (Past President) was not present. The names of the nominated were printed on the Agenda and were also listed on the Association's website. Evans pointed out that the Webmaster position was vacant and the Executive would be interested in hearing from any member willing to handle this position. She emphasized that the Webmaster was not required to have IT experience since an experienced assistant would be assisting the Webmaster. Evans read out the names of the 11 persons who were nominated and asked for any nominations for all positions from those attending. None were made.
Motion that all the nominations be approved: (Le Navenec/Meyers) CARRIED.
The following persons were approved for the position listed:
- President: Werner Becker
- Vice-President & President Elect: Maeve O’Beirne
- Past President & Graduate College Rep: Sheila Evans
- Secretary: Keith Dobson
- Treasurer/Membership: Arvi Rauk
- Program Director: Jocelyn Lockyer
- E-Letter & CURAC Rep.: Sandra Hirst
- LAR Editor: Linda Leonard
- Social/Keeping in Touch: Claire Mills
- Webmaster: Vacant
- Member-at-Large: Elaine McKiel
- Member-at-Large: David B. Hogan
Evans asked those present to give thanks to the four members of the Executive Committee who were not seeking re-election: Gary Krivy, Om Malik, Carole-Lynne Le Navenec and Andrew Pernal.
Becker gave thanks to Evans for her hard work as President during the last year.
8.
Other Business
Becker invited Evans who would present the next item of business.
8.1 Changes to the Constitution and By-Laws
Changes to the Constitution and By-Laws along with rationales had been available on the Association’s website and in keeping with the present Constitution had been made available two weeks prior to today’s AGM. Evans pointed out that today one would be approving the changes to the Constitution and asked for any questions from the floor. Once approved, the Executive Committee would approve changes to the By-Laws which were provided today for information.
There being no questions, a motion for approval of the changes was requested.
Motion (Becker/Mills): Move that changes to the Constitution be approved. CARRIED.
9.
Adjournment
Motion for adjournment at 2:15 p.m.: (Evans/Hogan) CARRIED.
Following the meeting, Dr. Ken Barker, Professor, Computer Science Director, ISPIA spoke on “Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat to Cybersecurity and Privacy”. A summary of his presentation will be given in the next edition of LAR.