2022 Annual Meeting and Professional Development Conference

The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Regulatory Bylaws requires that the annual meeting of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan be held in the first six months of each year, so it is customarily held on the first Saturday in May.

After two years of virtual annual meetings, we were delighted to again offer the usual in-person events, which included a professional development conference on Friday (several sessions are featured on pages 7 to 17) and the annual meeting on Saturday morning followed by the APEGS awards banquet that evening (award recipients are on pages 19 to 26). In addition, we offered virtual attendance at select professional development sessions, the annual meeting and the awards ceremony.

This year’s conference theme was transformation. APEGS has been on a journey for the past couple of years to transform our governance best practices and business processes. The association is continuing to improve and evolve to best uphold its mandate to regulate the engineering and geoscience professions in the public interest. At the annual meeting, the past year’s journey of transformation was reported and this year’s professional development opportunities were also about transformation, providing a variety of sessions that explored our changing world and how we can live and work in response.​​​​​​​

92nd annual meeting

The 92nd annual meeting was called to order in person and virtually at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 7, 2022 with 140 voting members in attendance. The business of the meeting included:

• Minutes from the May 1, 2021 annual meeting
• Business arising from minutes
• Message from the president
• Reports from executive director and registrar, public appointee, boards/committees
• Bylaw amendment
• Audited financial statements
• New business – motions from the floor
• 2022 election results
• Council induction

APEGS engaged Insightrix Research Inc., an independent third-party research firm, to conduct the 2022 council elections. Insightrix issued ballots on March 14, 2022 and polling day was on April 11, 2022.

The Executive Director and Registrar reported that the total number of votes cast was 1,986 (1913 electronic, 73 mail) being 13.56 per cent of the 14,650 total ballots sent out. There were no spoiled ballots.

President (1-year term). . . . . John W. Desjarlais, P.Eng.

President-Elect (1-year term). . . . . Greg F. Vogelsang, P.Eng., P.Geo., FEC, FGC

Vice-President  (1-year term). . . . . Erin A. Moss Tressel, P.Eng., P.Geo., FEC, FGC

Past President (1-year term). . . . . Kristen J. Darr, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.)

Councillors (3-year term)

Carolyn M. Emperingham, P.Eng. (2nd year)
Ian G. Farthing, P.Eng. (3rd year)
Gavin K.S. Jensen, P.Geo. (2nd year of 2nd term)
Danae N.T. Lemieux, P.Eng. (1st year of 2nd term)
Patricia D. Lung, P.Eng. (3rd year)
Trent M. Nelson, P.Eng. (2nd year)
Kevin L. Ness, P.Eng., FEC (1st year)
Aaron V. Phoenix, PhD, P.Eng., FEC (3rd year)
Ashok N. Thakkar, P.Eng., FEC (2nd year)

Public Appointees. . . . . Larry Doke

Appointments to National Organizations

Kevin M. Ansdell, P.Geo., FEC (Hon.), FGC
Ernest M. Barber P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.)