The Regional Women’s Committee is a focal point for mobilizing women members. The RWC informs, educates and empowers women within their union and their community. Check out these minutes for current activities and actions.
General Meeting – Planning for 2022
October 20, 2022 @ 6:00 pm Zoom Meeting
In attendance:
Kim Cardinal, Chair
Charmaine Nelson, Vice Chair
Maria Dworak, Member
PSAC Staff:
Carm Chan, PSAC Representative
Regrets:
Megan Carley, Member
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1. Welcome to all / Call to Order / Land Acknowledgement / Harassment Statement:
Kim Cardinal called the meeting to order at 6:26 pm and acknowledged the Land agreement. Charmaine read the Harassment Statement.
2. This Agenda – Adoption:
Kim requested adoption of the agenda – Consensus – Approved.
3. Approval and Posting of May 25, 2022 Minutes:
Consensus – Approved. Kim will ask PSAC to post to the website.
4. Treasurer’s report:
As the treasurer was not available, Kim Cardinal provided the committee with an update using the August 2022 bank statement. There is a total of $2344.35, which includes the deposit of $1250 from PSAC. Kim included there is an outstanding cheque that is required to be signed and delivered to Elder Heather Poitras for the sum of $150 as an honorarium for the team building event on June 12, 2022, for Elder teachings. There were no questions of this report and the report was moved.
5. New Business:
5.1 PSAC Priorities – Below are the four priorities for the RWC for 2022. They remain as standing items on the Agenda.
5.1 (a) Child Care –
No further discussions at this time
5.1 (b) Violence Against Women –
“Helping Women get back to the Workforce”. The 1st event and the only one for this fiscal year is on November 19, 2022. Kim asked at this meeting for consensus to send out the poster for volunteers (via union ware) and the poster for the organizations (Megan Carley will deliver). By show of hands – Consensus – approved. Once Kim receives a list of volunteers a schedule will be completed and sent to all committee members and the volunteers. Details of even for volunteers: Friday from 4pm – 7pm will be for set up, Saturday opened from 10 am – 4 pm for the “shoppers” and Sunday from 11am – 1pm to clean up. A budget of $1050 was requested for this event, this has been approved and the treasurer’s report reflects this deposit. It is notable that this event was planned to happen 4 times during the calendar year, however there will only be this event so all the funds will not need to be utilized.
5.1 (c) Pay Equity –
No further discussions at this time
5.1 (d) Employment Equity –
No further discussions at this time
5.2 RWC Priorities:
5.2 (a) Visual Artistic Journaling (VAJ) –
Event tabled for 2023 – for more details see minutes from April 27, 2022 and Item #6-Actions below.
5.2 (b) International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8, 2023 –
A forecasted budget was submitted recognizing any women days that an event can be held by the committee (i.e. lobbying). Committee came up with some ideas for this event, such as getting members to submit a poem, pictures, art work, etc. on what is International Women’s Day mean to you, and have a draw of all entries to win a prize. As well Carm suggested to get in contact with the other six Women’s committee’s and see what they might have planned or work on doing a “webinar” event.
5.2 (c) Team Building Ideas –
Kim updated the committee on the team building of the outside craft painting rocks. The event was held on June 12, 2022 @ 1 pm at Kim’s home. Elder Heather Poitras provided a teaching for all that attended. This event was well accepted and all members stated they enjoyed the teachings, the activity and the networking. Kim spoke of thinking about holding another team building fun event before the end of the year. Will ask for suggestions, dates and plan for the next meeting.
6. Actions:
| Who | What | When | Date completed |
| Kim | Request that the May 25th meeting minutes be posted | October 21, 2022 | November 1, 2022 |
| Kim | Request the volunteer notice go out to members for the Helping Women get back into the workforce | October 24, 2022 | October 24, 2022 |
| Megan | Deliver the poster to organizations for the Helping Women get back into the workforce | November 7, 2022 | |
| All committee members | Accepting donations – volunteering for the event. | Nov 19, 2022 | |
| Carm | Send advertisement via Union Ware for the event | Oct 24, 2022 | Oct 24, 2022 |
| Kim – Standing item for minutes | Have discussions with Marianne in regards to events for next year. And having budget approval this year (Budget was approved for this year and funds were deposited in the account) | November 2022. | August 2022 |
7. Next meeting date, time and location:
Next meeting date, time and location: Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at 6:00PM via Zoom.
8. Roundtable:
Charmaine Nelson – hope to see more members at meetings, including the RWC executives. Kim Cardinal – agreed with Charmaine and was shared that the upcoming 2022 Prairies Women’s Conference that she is attending will bring more to our meetings..
9. Adjournment @ 7:15 pm