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Members' Benefits Committee

How the committee is made up?
Who are the current committee members?
What is the committee's directive?

How the committee is made up?

The Members' Benefits Committee consists of a Chair, who shall be a member of the Provincial Executive Committee, with no less than six (6) committee members, who shall be members of the Union.

The AUPE President - Doug Knight - shall appoint all members of the committee, including the Chair, and if possible, one member from each area of the province where a regional office exists.

The Officers of the Union shall be ex-officio members of the Members' Benefits Committee.

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Who are the current committee members?

Chair - Bill Dechant
Staff Advisor - Rob Howatt
Staff Secretary- Mary Guido
AUPE Staff - Josie Peters

William Brown
Lorri Predy
Shauna Warrilow
Kathleen Mulcahy
Chris Sharp
Brenda Thacker

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What is the committee's directive?

The Members' Benefits Committee shall:
i) Invest the Members' Benefits Benevolent Fund and the Members' Education Assistance Fund;
ii) Ensure that a proper and complete record of each fund and all grants made by the Members' Benefits Committee is accurately maintained at all times;
iii) Report to the Provincial Executive regularly, to the President on request, and to the Annual Convention;
iv) Provide to the Annual Convention the annual audited financial statements of the Members' Benefits Benevolent Fund and the Members' Education Assistance Fund;
v) Accept and decide upon applications for financial assistance in accordance with the stated purposes of the Members' Benefits Benevolent Fund and the Members' Education Assistance Fund;
vi) Make grants of financial assistance in accordance with those decisions; and
vii) Consider and make recommendations with respect to such further and other matters relating generally to members' benefits as the President may direct.

The Members' Benefits Committee shall enact Bylaws for its administration. The Provincial Executive will have approved these Bylaws.

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