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Finance

Committee Members (2011-13)

Bill Dechant, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Chair
Wendy Gummesen, Local 043
Gloria Holberton, Local 001
Linda Laminman, Local 003
Percy Ogden, Local 056
Susan Sawchuk, Local 047
Reni Smith, Local 071
Myrna Wright, Local 041
Shelley Zabel, Local 052

Corey Battrick, Staff Advisor

Duties of the Finance Committee

AUPE’s Constitution sets out the duties of the Finance Committee as follows:

The Finance Committee shall:

  1. make recommendations for the proper administration of the finances of the Union;
  2. ensure that a proper and complete record of the financial affairs of the Union is accurately maintained at all times;
  3. ensure that expenditures are lawfully made;
  4. recommend to the Provincial Executive the transfer of budget allocations;
  5. make recommendations to the Provincial Executive with respect to the funding of components;
  6. ensure monthly financial statements are provided at each Provincial Executive meeting;
  7. accept applications for grants in aid and recommend approval or denial of such applications to the Provincial Executive;
  8. make recommendations to the Provincial Executive and to the Executive Secretary-Treasurer in respect of methods of financing and investment of the Union’s funds;
  9. review budgets of components, and where required by this Constitution, approve, amend, or reject those budgets, and where appropriate, make recommendations to a component concerning its budget;
  10. review the proposed annual budget of the Union as presented by the Executive Secretary-Treasurer and may amend or modify that budget;
  11. present, through its Chair, a proposed annual budget for the Union to the Provincial Executive;
  12. present the proposed annual budget for the Union, as approved by the Provincial Executive, to Convention; and
  13. review major expenditures which are not provided for in the annual budget approved by Convention, or do not pertain to current negotiations.