October 5th 2009 General Meeting Minute Notes
Glass Trades Association of Northern Alberta
Minute Notes
October 5th 2009 General Meeting
Call Meeting to Order At 6:05pm By: Kim Murray
Attending:
Kevin Forder – AGC Flat Glass
Ross Wady – All Glass Parts
Bob Yaroslowsky – All Glass Parts
Neil Currie – All Glass Parts
Sonny Nguyen – Automated Entrances
Lynn Allan – Beacon Glass Products
Henry Szewczyk – Cascade Aqua-Tech
Brad Eyben – Contract Glass
Joe Millard – Flynn Canada
Ron Kokotilo – Flynn Canada
Steve Taschuk – Flynn Canada
Eric Veniot – Flynn Canada
Mitch Lalonde – Hayward Glass
Chris Mitchell – Hayward Glass
John Abbott – Hayward Glass
Wayne Brandt – Kawneer Co.
Joe Kossick – Oldcastle Glass
Harry Nickel – Sota
Alexis Radke – Specialty Glazing
Robert Radke – Specialty Glazing
Catalina Guzman – Summit Glass
Kim Murray – Summit Glass
Tammy Lanovaz – Supertint
Mike Martens – Supertint
Darcy Hafso – Supertint
Randy Lindstrom – Visionwall
Wendy Clarahan – Visionwall
Graham Clarahan – Visionwall
Eric Lalonde – Visionwall
Amber Pollock – Visionwall
Kaylee Juniper - GTA
Ken Miller - Sperian Protection – Guest Speaker
Total Attendance: 32
#1 – Sept.14th General Meeting Review
Minutes adopted.
#2 – Joe Millard – Treasury is waiting for Bank Statements to do year end, should be done by the end of Oct.
#3 –Lynn Allan Apprenticeship Chair – Dave Edwards and Ed Dalzell have secured 4000 sq feet of bay space just for the Glazing students that will be available for the January Class. Ed will also be bringing up close to 40000 in new equipment for students. SAIT gave the funding for this equipment.
*We NEED to keep the flow of students going into these programs to keep the funding going, please put your new hires into class to keep the flow of money going*
Top Marks have come out from SAIT:
First year goes to Andrew Aparvary form Capilano Glass.
2. Second Year goes to Bradley Mellott from Hayward Glass.
3. Third year the BILL BLAKNEY award and top 3rd year award goes to Monique Rivard from Flynn Canada.
4. Fourth Year goes to Ian Whitham from Alumatec Glass and Glazing.
The teacher that was contracted is Bob Stadnyk used to work at All West Glass. If we can get a 4th year class we will be able to contract a full time position.
Ed Dalzell needs us to come up with drafting supplies for about 20 students. The estimated cost is going to be about 1400 dollars. We need these by January’s class. The issue is put to motion and seconded, then voted and approved.
#4 – Wendy Clarahan – Special Project
The Canadian Career Fair week is coming to the Agricom in November on the 20th and 21st. It will be open from 9-5 on Friday the 20th and 10-4 on Saturday the 21st. We are using the PGAA & GAMA display that Flynn will bring up for us from Calgary. On the Friday students will be bussing in and on both Friday and Saturday it is open to the general public. Over 13000 people are estimated to walk through this event.
We need volunteers to work the booth and greet public. Apprentices who have gone to school here in Edmonton would be especially welcome. PGAA and GAMA may have some handouts that we can use at the station. The cost was 600$. If anyone can volunteer it is greatly appreciated, please contact Wendy at clarahanwl@visionwall.com
#5 – Henry Szewczyk – Guest Speaker Committee Chair
Our meeting attendance so far this year has been great and we appreciate so many coming to the meetings. We would like to encourage employers to bring any employees they believe would benefit from attending these meetings, they are welcome.
We have currently lost one of the Guest Speaker Committee Members and we have another who is on an extended leave of absence and may not return. It would be great if we could get 2 more volunteers to generate ideas for future meetings. Employees of member companies should be encouraged as they may have new and fresh ideas from working in the field. If you or someone you know can volunteer a small bit of time, please contact Henry at: hszewczyk@cascadeaqua.com
We were trying to get someone from Capital Health to do a presentation next month on general health through the cold season, dressing appropriately and preparing for a possible flu epidemic. We were not able to find someone. If anyone knows a doctor who may be able to do a presentation or a nurse (anyone in the health care field) please let Henry know at: hszewczyk@cascadeaqua.com
#6 – Newsletter for November – We will be coming out with another edition of the newsletter before Christmas.
We need a new featured project for the front page – if you have one that you would like to submit please email it to Kaylee.Juniper@hotmail.com with a few small paragraphs on what the building is, how big it is, when it was built, the man power involved, glazing system used, amount of glass used, etc along with some photos of the project both during construction and completed if possible. If we have more than one submission we will draw for the feature project.
We also need some ideas for the Safety Story and New Technology Sections, if you have any ideas please contact Kaylee at Kaylee.Juniper@hotmail.com
ANY IDEAS ARE WELCOME< WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE NEWSLETTER?
#7 – Sonny Nguyen – Safety Committee chair
We have had some requests for another safety presentation for Lift/Scaffold/Boom, please let Sonny know what you would like to hear about, he will take the most popular idea and run with a more specific presentation on that idea, you can email him at sonny@automatedentrances.com
Now Ken Miller will do presentation on Written Fall Protection from Sperian protection. He has more than 15 years experience. Thank you Ken
If anyone would like a copy of the presentation that Ken did please email Sonny at sonny@automatedentrances.com he can forward your request on to Ken.
#8 – 50/50 Draw – 70$ +
Adjourn Meeting: 7:54pm
PLEASE CONTACT OUR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT KAYLEE JUNIPER @ Kaylee.Juniper@hotmail.com IF ANY AMENDMENTS NEED TO BE MADE OR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.