Minutes - Environment Committee
HELD June 8 & 9, 2010 3rd Floor Banff Meeting Room
At AUPE Headquarters
The meeting was called to order at 0930 a.m. with Sandy Kyle in the Chair.
ROLL CALL
Present: Troy Merrill, Chris D’Lima, Marylou Savic, Willis Poulett, Iba Boda, Pauline Clarke, Sandy Kyle
Staff Advisor: Garnett Robinson
Absent: With regrets Marilyn Dorozio
ADOPTION OF AGENDA (1) MOTION: To adopt the Agenda. Properly moved and seconded. CARRIED
ADOPTION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
(2) MOTION: To adopt the minutes of March 18th & 19th
Properly moved and seconded. CARRIED
Correspondences:
- Sheila Mukslow from the Sierra Club: Save the Water, Water Allocation
NEW BUSINESS
- New Business
- New Committee Member: Since Marilyn Dorozia resigned from committee Sandy has sent a letter to President Guy Smith so he can appoint another member (The Committee has suggested that Christine Scotland be appointed)
- Watched Video Blue Gold: World Water Wars and Discussed it.
- Clean up Alberta: Suggestion and discussion on what the Committee should take on as its next project
- River Valley Cleanup
- Adopt a Block
- Capital City Clean up
- Each member will explore each city that has an AUPE office in it and report back at the next meeting
- Peace River
- Athabasca,
- Calgary
- Red Deer
- Camrose
- Grande Prairie
- Lethbridge
- Preventative measures To Improve not by Clean up but by educating the members
- Team up With the Pay Equity
- Clean Challenge April 25th –May 02 City Center, Involve members,
- Bike Racks at AUPE offices
- Video Story on Bottle Water to All
- Sixty municipalities across Canada have banned the sale of bottle water Alberta is not one of them
- Vision Statement so we are more focused
- Council of Canadians Rabble.ca
- World Water Days
- Government secrecies about decommissioned wells in Can mar
- Look at putting links on the Environmental Committee
- Waterkeeper.org
- Greenalberta.ca
- Keepersofthewaters.org
- Council of Canadian
- PIA
- A did You Know section
- Trivia
- Committee Members To Research some Environmental Fact and bring it back for our next meeting
- Key Note Speaker For Convention Topic being Water and How it effects us ( Water Shortages, Usages, and Privatization) – Sandy will contact the Executives
- Discussed where and when we have meeting
- Willis to investigate the price of t-shirt for the Committee to wear to Convention
- Discussed what happened to our Motions at PE and Convention
- Committee members will work on Policy statements and email it to Sandy and a motion on Water issues for members
- Power Point
- Convention:
- Table set up for taste test for water test.
- Email will be sent to the Convention Committee
(4)Motion:
Properly Moved and Seconded
The Environmental Committee order t-shirts for the members of the Committee and note book with pen made from recycled material for an approximate cost of $2800.00
Old Business
- Motion 1-03-2010 was split and the second part referred back to the committee for renumbering from Provincial Executive
- Vanessa Bjerreskov came to speak on the difficulties of putting the AUPE Policy & Procedures on line
- Motion 4-03-2010 – updates from Locals
(5) Motion:
AUPE Policy & Procedures is made available online for all members of AUPE and the public.
With a recommendation and direction from PE and the Ledge Committee to decide what sensitive areas (if any) are not to be included.
Rationale:
Reducing the paper usage. Other unions Have Policy & Procedures including lock-out and Strike policies are available on line in whole.
MEETING DATE
Date of next meeting: August 30th & 31st 10 am in Red Deer. Carpool where possible
Adjournment: 1415hrs
ADJOURNMENT
(4) MOTION: To adjourn.
Properly moved and seconded. CARRIED
The meeting adjourned at Adjournment: 1615hrs
Sandy Kyle
Chair
Distribution: Environmental Committee