APEGS VIEW : ANNUAL MEETING

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.

Customarily, APEGS holds the annual meeting each year on the first Saturday in May preceded by a professional development conference the day before (several sessions are featured on pages 9-21) and a banquet for the recipients of the APEGS awards on Saturday evening (see pages 24-31 for more).

The 91st Annual Meeting of the Association was called to order virtually at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 1, 2021, with 186 voting members in attendance.

The business of the meeting included:

• Minutes from the 2020 Annual Meeting.
• Business arising out of the minutes.
• Reports from committees.
• Audited financial statements.

New business:

• Including seventeen bylaw amendments.
• One motion from the floor.

• Report of the scrutineers.
• Council Induction.

Each year, APEGS engages an independent third-party research firm to conduct council elections on the
20th day before the date fixed by the council as polling day. APEGS engaged Insightrix Research Inc. to conduct the 2021 council elections. Insightrix issued ballots on March 29, 2021 and polling day was April 19, 2021.

The Executive Director and Registrar reported the total number of votes cast was 2,106 (2,070 electronic, 36 mail) being 14.8 per cent of the 14,258 total ballots sent out. There were two spoiled ballots.

The results of the vote were: 

Officers of Council – one-year term

• President – Kristen Darr, P.Geo.
• President-Elect – John Desjarlais, P.Eng.
• Vice-President – Greg Vogelsang, P.Eng., P.Geo., FEC, FGC

New councillors – three-year term

• Group II (Mechanical & Industrial) – Ashok Thakkar, P.Eng., FEC
• Group V (Agriculture and Forestry) – Carolyn Emperingham, P.Eng.
• Southeast District – Trent Nelson, P.Eng.
• Geoscience South District – Gavin Jensen, P.Geo.
• Members-in-Training – Caileigh Beckman, Engineer-in-Training

Returning members of Council

• Andrew Lockwood, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) – Past President
• Nicholas Kaminski, P.Eng. – Group I (Civil)
• Kaylee Tumack, P.Eng. – Group III (Electrical and Engineering Physics)
• Erin Moss Tressel, P.Eng., P.Geo, FEC, FGC – Group IV (Geological, Mining, Petroleum, Geophysics and Geoscientists)
• Patricia Lung, P.Eng. – Group VI (Chemical, Ceramic and Metallurgical)
• Danae Lemieux, P.Eng. – Group VII (Environmental)
• Aaron Phoenix, Ph.D., P.Eng., FEC – Southwest District
• Ian Farthing, P.Eng., FEC – North District
• Alix Cruickshank, P.Geo. – Geoscience North
• Wendell Patzer – Public Appointee

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