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1. Call to order

0915 hrs.

Action Item: None

2. Introduction of Officers and Guests:

Peggy Hoffman, Jason Pankratow, Mark Seville (assigned for PREP),

3. Minutes of Previous Meeting

M/S/C

Action Items:

4. Business Arising From Minutes

Rocky will present the Life Membership plaque to Bob Glover on March 31st in Rocky at the chapter AGM. Dan is planning on attending. Anyone wanting to attend can do so as a guest of the chapter.

Mike Benedictson has nothing to report on Edmonton chapter revitilization ideas.

Action Item: None

5. Correspondence

M/S/C

Letter from Lakeland College advising that Awards Night will be held on March 19th, 2003. We have a bursary at Lakeland. Gary Walsh will do presentation.

Letter to Mike Cardinal dated November 27, 2002, from Dan MacLennan expressing concerns about current downsizing exercise in Department.

Email from Mike Dempsey to Doug Gamble and Brian Randall on inquiry from an FPT in the FPD regarding OT payment perceived discrepancy paid to those to getting full night's rest.(8 hours).

Email from Mike Dempsey discussing lookouts.

Letter from Dan MacLennan dated February 14, 2003 to Shirley Howe, Director (Public Service Commissioner) requesting a review of mileage, insurance, and subsistence rates.

Letter from Dan MacLennan to all "Convention Call" set for October 23, 24, 25, 2003 at Ramada Inn.

Memo from E Mardell dated February 5, 2003 to all Local Treasurers requiring all Locals to provide to union HQ info with respect to reporting honorariums for purposes of preparing T4/T4A slips (for $ over 500 dollars).

Email between Doug and Brian on who can claim meals. No policy yet via Dianne Dunnne

Action Item:

6. Report Of Officers

Chair – verbal report. Meeting at end of November. Dealt with complaints with another Local; sent flowers to Wayne Bowles. Nothing exciting. M/S/C

Vice Chair - nothing to report. M/S/C

Secretary - verbal report. I have been reelected to Local Council. M/S/C

Treasurer - written report submitted by Wayne Bowles. All of our bank statements, cheque stubs, and receipts were submitted to HQ for audit purposes on Feb 3, 2003.

Wayne directed HQ to find info needed to honorarium T4 slips in info he sent into HQ. Motion to accept report: M/S/C

Motion (Terry) and 2nded (Ross) to forward funds of $318.23 to Chapter 11 to bring them up to $800. M/S/C

Motion (Rick Stewart) and2nded by Mike Benedictson to donate $1000 to Diakonos and provide them with an endorsement for their brochures. Discussion follows. M/S/C

Motion to table this to our AGM to give more time to think about this. Motion by Kim Bradford, and 2nded by Tracy Cove M/S/NOT CARRIED

Motion to provide $75 for flowers to Wayne Bowles M/S/C

P.E. - 2 meetings since last report (December 7, February 8). Next one is in GP on April 12. Written reports submitted. M/S/C

Action Item: If anyone is interested in any standing committee, please advise Doug. Positions come available periodically.

Action item: encourage youth (under 30) to join youth committee. Conference is planned for September 19-21.

7. Committee Reports

Negotiations (Randall): wage reopener will be coming up soon. There are some significant gains occurring with 3rd year wage reopeners with some locals now. Notice to bargain will come out on or about the 2nd week of June.

EMAC - (Randall) Meeting is April 3rd in Edmonton. Numerous items: CD turmoil needs to be dealt with. OHS committee structuring. PREP will be on the agenda. Northern allowance travel allowance. Criteria for specialist modifiers and linkage to PREP. Training in relation to OT- Definitions of "training". OT on fires overnight, where you' ve had less than 8 hours rest. Resource people not being used on fires anymore - More clarification needed here. FO I's to FO 2's - there are no clear guidelines on transition.

Byron Kessler has accepted postion on EMAC - he will be a replacement for Wes Nimco.

Action Item: Go to chapters and forward concerns for agenda to Brian, Doug, and Kim.

8. NEW BUSINESS

Mark Seville (union rep for PREP): there will be no loss of pay (letter of understanding). Worst case scenario: potential to have pay frozen over (Local 2 experience). Mark handed out a list of PREP websites. With local 2 experience, 118 classifications reduced to 28. Some in local 6 saw a substantial increase in salary due to education; with Local 5, it will depend on how 'screwed' up current classification is, in determining new classification rates.

Mark then gave a brief discussion of what PREP is, and where it came from. PREP was originally based on HAY system, PREP does not consider working conditions, so can no longer be called HAY. PREP classification put points on 3 factors considered (knowledge, creativity and problem solving, responsibility ) salary is driven by how many points your position is assigned. In job description, spend at least half your time describing knowledge (word to the wise).

Locals 5 and 3 are supposed to be next for PREP. At that time AUPE will hold workshops for training.

Doug: we need to put a committee together of 6 reps (7 classifications represented: CD Parks, SRD FO (2 streams - Fire and TM ), F&W, Prof. (foresters, biologists), towerpersons, communication people, radio operators today to represent the LOCAL on PREP. Brian: let's put the committee into existence, but let's wait for the AGM's to go through, so that we can find out from the members who is interested. Doug: this will be full time work for a period of time (between 1-2 months, perhaps), most likely this summer. Doug says he is interested, and he will approach other CD and F&W officers on who wants to get involved in the committee. We will look at the nominees for the committee at the next meeting (AGM). If we need to put the committee together earlier we will conference call on it. Bottom line: have nominees in place by end of April.

Presentation by Diakonos (Greek word meaning minister or servant) Peace Officer Retreat Society. This is a society created to deal with supporting Peace Officers and their family members as they deal with job related stress unique to Peace officers (police officers, conservation officers, park rangers, forest officers, etc.). Each council member went home with a number of brochures on the society. Goal of the presentation: to help promote Diakonos and its retreats and conferences. Http://www.diakonosretreat.com is the website.

Forest Officer-in-training (FPD): two competition posters came out. Concerns: we should have input into it. What is classification? FA? FO 1? How can you say that one must stay in one location for minimum of 3 years? lots of unanswered questions. Discussion ensued. Is this a good thing? Or poorly thought out? Sounds like a ticket to a remote location. There is a perception that this position will lead to FPT's, or higher, without the requirement for the prerequisite education.

Action Items:

9. GENERAL DISCUSSION

Labour School: We are sending two. Kimpton Bradford, and Doug Gamble.

Action Item: None

10. DATE OF NEXT MEETING (AGM)

May 2nd, 2003

1. Action Item: None

11. ADJOURNMENT

1530 hrs. M/S/C

·  Action Item: None