Notes from APEGS Council

The APEGS Council held an in-person meeting with the option to participate virtually on Feb. 3 and 4, 2022 in Saskatoon, Sask. The meeting was attended by Council and the Directors to Engineers Canada and Geoscientists Canada. The next council meeting will be on March 30, 2022 through Teams as a special meeting to review audited financial statements.

Council received the following items:

• Executive Committee minutes of Jan. 13, 2022
• Governance Board minutes of Jan. 20, 2022
• Professionalism Board minutes of Jan. 19, 2022
• Regulatory Board minutes of Jan. 11, 2022
• Investigation Committee (Abridged) minutes of Jan. 14 2022
• Discipline Committee have not met since November 2021
• Corporate Registrant Task Group minutes of Jan. 17, 2022
• Constituent Society Relationships Task Group minutes of Dec. 16, 2021 and Jan. 20, 2022
• Financial Statements October, November, December 2021
• Registrar’s Report and Statistics and Applications Received – October revised) November and December 2021
• Regina Engineering Society report
• Saskatoon Engineering Society report
• Moose Jaw Engineering Society report
• Saskatchewan Geological Society report
• ACEC-SK report
• Engineers Canada report
• Geoscientists Canada report

Council approved the following motions:

Approved the Guide for Licensee Applicants as revised in the agenda.

• Approved the LAC1.0 Licensee Eligibility Policy as revised.
• Approved the following random sample criteria to support the 2021 CPD Assurance Reviews:
• Members who reported their 2021 CPD prior to March 31, 2021.
• Members who had an approved remediation plan for 2021.
• Members who reported maximum credits in all categories.
• Members who reported their 2021 CPD after the deadline of Jan 31, 2022 (after receiving notices of non-conformance).
• Approved Life Member applications of 57 members.
• Approved the appointment of Paul Walsh to serve as a member of the Investigation Committee effective Feb. 3, 2022 until the annual meeting in 2025.
• Approved the Corporate Registrant Task Group’s (CRTG) communications plan.
• Approved the amended project charter for the Constitute Society Relationships Task Group.
• Engage T. Bakkeli Consultants Inc. to provide research and support to the Constituent Society Relationships Task Group (CSRTG) as set out in the proposal.
• Approval to recommend repealing Appendix D contained in the Administrative Bylaws, to the membership at the 2021 annual meeting.
• Approval for APEGS to initiate a project to address and remove the age requirement for the Life Member category.
• Approved the recommendation to respond to the membership at the 2021 Annual Meeting to not create abbreviated titles for engineering/geoscience licensees.
• Approval to support the Engineers Canada recommendation to decrease the 2024 Per Capita Assessment fee to $8 per registrant.
• Approval of the amended Admin 3.0 Expense Reimbursement Guideline.
• Update on the AMSOFT system replacement process.
• Update on APEGS strategic plan progress to date regarding objectives set out by Council.
• Review of the draft risk management framework and policy.
• Update on recent actions supporting the communications strategy.
• Update on the current compliance statistics and approach to enforcement.
• Disclosure of the new outline and approach to the 2021 annual report.