2018 General Meeting

The 2018 Annual General Meeting was held on April 28, 2018, at Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.

Links to previous AGMs and Financial Reports can be found at the bottom of this page.

Call To Order

• As quorum was achieved, Vice-President Nick Iwanyshyn called the annual general meeting to order.

Adoption of Agenda

• Lars Hagberg motioned to accept the agenda and was seconded by Andrew Lahodynskyj. Motion passed.

Adoption of Previous Minutes

• Ric Ernst motioned to accept the adoption of the previous minutes from May 6, 2017. Seconded by Crystal Schick. Motion passed.

Business Arising from Previous Minutes

• No business arising from the minutes.

Financial Reports

• Financial reports were delivered by Ali Ledgerwood. The financials were accepted and adopted by Martin Tremblay and seconded by Andrew Meade. The financial reports have been posted on the NPAC web site (link at the bottom of this page).

New Business

• Chris Donovan is now promoting our membership to the schools. It was acknowledged that changes need to be made. We need to get greater access to the community and further resources made available to the NPAC community. Anyone with any suggestions to please bring forward to the Executive for further discussion.

• Discussion ensued regarding the NPAC membership card and exploring the opportunities to bring it into existence. The membership was asked to vote to see if the Executive should explore this opportunity in more depth. As the majority won, it was determined that the Executive will explore more and will provide info back to the membership at the earliest possible time.

• Discussion ensued regarding funding of NPAC and how we can expand our budget. If any members have any suggestions on opportunities, please forward to Ali to follow up.

• Workshops were discussed and we are exploring the possibility of doing small, local events. Among other things, this type of event would require NPAC members in geographic locations that are centrally located. The executive will review and will update when possible.

• The Canadian Media Guild made its presentation regarding a potential partnership with NPAC. This would give access to membership cards with the CMG and the International Federation of Journalists, online workshops, legal services, contract negotiation help and a number of other opportunities. It was noted that this would require doubling NPAC’s membership fee. There was discussion amongst the membership and several questions were raised. Further discussion is required and NPAC members would have to vote on this.

Election of Executives

• The first year of the Executives’ two-year term has come to an end. As per our By-laws, elections are held every two years. So the Executives are:

Cole Burston, President

Nick Iwashynan, Vice-President

Gio Ciampini, Secretary

Jason Payne, Treasurer

Ali Ledgerwood, Executive Director

Chris Donovan, Student Chair

Next Meeting Date and Adjournment

• The next meeting date and location are to be determined and adjournment was motioned and passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned.

Signed: Cole Burston, President

Dated: April 28, 2018