Over 200 elected AMAPCEO Delegates from across the province met on Friday and Saturday, November 25th and 26th, to make decisions in preparation for 2012 – a year that will see negotiations in all of our bargaining units as the provincial government is warning of severe public sector budget cuts.
Next year is also the 20th anniversary of AMAPCEO’s founding and that original commitment and resolve from 1992 were evident throughout this year’s Annual Delegates’ Conference (ADC).
In elections to fill four positions on the 9-member Board of Directors, Delegates re-elected incumbents Robert Stambula as Vice-President, Barbara Gough as Secretary and Murray Gaudreau as a Director. Kingston Chapter Chair Nella Belcastro was also voted onto the Board.
Members of the Board are elected to two-year terms, staggered so that four members are elected one year and five members are elected in the alternate year. President Gary Gannage, Treasurer Ian GlynWilliams and Directors David Bulmer, Harold Haynes and Dan Skwarok continue for another year. The term of the new Board begins on January 1st, 2012.
In approving the proposed 2012 operating budget, Delegates endorsed:
- The hiring of five new staff in the AMAPCEO office to provide more service to members;
- Funding for an external campaign to defend the value of public services in Ontario society;
- Funding for a strong bargaining campaign and member mobilization strategy across all six of our bargaining units in 2012.
Once again, through prudent management, the annual operating budget proposed by the Board of Directors was balanced and does not require any increase in membership dues.
Delegates also voted to approve a number of bargaining priorities recommended by the OPS Bargaining Team, based on the recent survey that was sent to members in October.
In addition, Delegates honoured the first recipients of AMAPCEO’s activist recognition awards: Keith Baird (Education), Bill McNamara (Community and Social Services) and Barbara Stead (Revenue) for life-time achievement; Graham Howe (Agriculture and Food/Guelph) for membership services in the ”builder” category and Arlene Robertson (Agriculture and Food/Guelph) and Stan Sosin (Revenue) for membership services in the “outstanding service” category.
The keynote guest speaker on Friday was Steve Paikin, long-time host of TVO’s The Agenda, sharing his analysis of federal and provincial political issues.
For the first time this year, a retired member, Bill Coleman, who also sits on the Board's Pension Committee, attended the ADC as a Delegate-at-Large.
Finally, the conference elected members to two committees – the Audit Committee and the Constitutional Review Committee. A five-year review of the AMAPCEO Constitution and By-laws is required to be conducted in 2012, with any proposed amendments to be recommended by the committee at next year’s ADC.
Please watch for more information about the conference in the December edition of AMAPCEO Member News, to be sent to all members later this month. In the meantime, however, the 2011 Annual Report of the Board of Directors can be viewed here.
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