Council Notes

The APEGS Council held an in-person meeting with the option to participate virtually on Dec. 2 and 3, 2021 in Regina, Sask. The meeting was attended by Council and the Directors to Engineers Canada and Geoscientists Canada. The next Council meeting will be on Feb. 3 and 4, 2022 in-person in Saskatoon. Microsoft Teams will be made available for those unable to attend in-person.

Council received the following items:

• Executive Committee minutes of November 19, 2021
• Governance Board minutes of November 4, 2021
• Professionalism Board minutes of November 18, 2021
• Regulatory Board minutes of November 9, 2021
• Investigation Committee (Abridged) minutes of November 19, 2021
• Discipline Committee minutes of November 4, 2021
• Corporate Registrant Task Group minutes of October 5 and November 17, 2021
• Constituent Society Relationships Task Group minutes of November 17, 2021
• Financial Statements – August, September and October 2021
• Registrar’s Report and Statistics and Applications Received – September and October 2021
• Regina Engineering Society report
• Saskatoon Engineering Society report
• Moose Jaw Engineering Society report
• Saskatchewan Geological Society report
• CIM Saskatoon GeoSection report
• ACEC-SK report
• Engineers Canada report
• Geoscientists Canada report

Council approved the following motions:

• Accept the 2022 budget.
• Introduce a social media program.
• Reduce the number of print issues of The Professional Edge and introduce monthly e-bulletins.
• Select Ernest Barber as the Saskatchewan representative to Engineers Canada for their consideration.
• Accept the government relations strategy and policy.
• Amend the council meeting cycle to be quarterly with one special meeting in March to approve the audited financial statements.
• Offer the National Professional Practice Exam (NPPE) five times a year. The exam will be 110 multiple choice questions. The time to take the exam will be 2.5 hours.
• Offer the current available seminar content online five times a year until January 1, 2023 to allow Professional Practice Exam Committee (PPEC) to determine the best options for the future of the seminar.
• Amend the Professional Practice Exam policy 1.0 to reflect the changes approved in the two above bullets.
• Accept life member applications
• Amend Equity and Diversity Committee terms of reference.
• Investigate the conduct of the named person as outlined in a document submitted by an anonymous source at the University of Regina.
• Revise Executive Committee terms of reference.
• Accept the Corporate Registrant Task Group work plan.
• Appoint Dustin Unger, P.Eng., Terry Werbovetski, P.Eng., and Sarah Yeo, Engineer-in-Training to the Constituent Society Relationships Task Group.
• Amend student funding and student funding procedures.
• Recommend Ian Sloman to the Engineers Canada Qualification’s Board Nominating Committee as the Saskatchewan and Manitoba CEQB representative for a third and final three-year term.