All Ottawa Vanier Greens members are invited to attend.

Someone should be near the door to let you in the building but if not please dial the buzzer code 119.

Volunteers are still needed for the meeting! We need
- a secretary to take the minutes
- a time keeper to keep us all on track
- 6 volunteers to work the member registrations table; 3 for the Green Party of Canada table and 3 for the Green Party of Ontario table. Volunteers would check members’ identification against the current membership list and hand out ballots to the members who are eligible to vote.

If you are interested in helping with any of these roles, please contact Nicole Parker at 613-236-7167 or nicoleparker.ottawa@gmail.com.

AGENDA: Please see above for a copy of the agenda.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES: I have received two proposed changes to the Constitution.

Motion 1: Move that the Green Party of Ontario members of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens adopt the Charter and Bylaws of the Ottawa-Vanier Green Party of Ontario Constituency Association. (Submitter: Dave Bagler)

Please see above to read the Charter and Bylaws.

Motion 2: Move that the Green Party of Canada members of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens adopt the Constitution of the Ottawa–Vanier Federal Green Party Association. (Submitter: Caroline Rioux)

Please see above to read the Constitution of the Ottawa–Vanier Federal Green Party Association.

If you are having difficulties with any of these documents, please contact Nicole Parker at 613-236-7167 or nicoleparker.ottawa@gmail.com. She will be happy to email you a copy directly.

EDA and CA EXECUTIVE ELECTIONS

As per the constitution, nominees will be accepted before and during the meeting. If you would like to run for an Executive position, or have any questions about what’s involved, please do not hesitate to contact Nicole for more information. If there is a role you’d like to fill but you don’t see it listed here, feel free to contact her about that as well. The following positions are all open:

Electoral District Association Chief Executive Officer (Green Party of Canada)
Electoral District Association Financial Agent (Green Party of Canada)
Constituency Association President (Green Party of Ontario)
Constituency Association Treasurer (Green Party of Ontario)
Fundraising Chair
Membership Chair
Organizing Chair
Youth Chair
Campaign Chair

A reminder: only current members of the Ottawa–Vanier Greens may vote at the AGM. To be a member of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens, you must be a member of either the Green Party of Canada, the Green Party of Ontario, or both and you must provide proof of residency in the riding. Please bring your identification to the meeting. Lapsed memberships can be renewed at the meeting or beforehand. To renew your Green Party of Canada membership beforehand, visit www.greenparty.ca. To renew your Green Party of Ontario membership beforehand, visit www.gpo.ca. To check on your membership status, please contact Nicole Parker at 613-236-7167 or nicoleparker.ottawa@gmail.com.

Date: Thursday, April 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Sandy Hill Community Centre (250 Sommerset E)
Members are asked to begin arriving by 7:15 so they can be registered and receive ballots.

Dear Members and Friends of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens,

With all of the federal election scares and the provincial by-elections of the past several months, it’s hard to believe it’s already time to hold another Annual General Meeting of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens.  My name is Nicole Parker.  Akbar Manoussi, the current CEO of the Ottawa-Vanier EDA, has asked me to organize this year’s AGM. 

This year’s AGM will be held on Thursday, April 8^th at 7:30 pm at the Sandy Hill Community Centre (250 Sommerset E). 

At the AGM we will be electing a new EDA Executive to manage the party’s business in Ottawa-Vanier for 2010-2011.  All of the current positions are open and we would love to expand our team.  If you would like to run for an Executive position, or have any questions about what’s involved, please contact me for more information.

The following positions are all open:

• Electoral District Association
  Chief Executive Officer (Green Party of Canada)
• Electoral District Association
  Financial Agent (Green Party of Canada)
• Constituency Association President
  (Green Party of Ontario)
• Constituency Association Treasurer
  (Green Party of Ontario)
• Steering Committee Members
  (Ottawa-Vanier Greens)
• Fundraising Chair
• Membership Chair
• Organizing Chair
• Youth Chair
• Campaign Chair

At the AGM, we will also discuss and vote on any proposed changes to Ottawa-Vanier Greens Constitution.  All proposed changes to the Constitution must be submitted by Monday, March 15th.  To submit any changes to the executive, please email them to nicoleparker.ottawa@gmail.com.  As per the constitution, any proposed changes will be made available to the membership by Thursday, March 25th.

A reminder: only current members of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens may vote at the AGM. To be a member of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens, you must be a member of either the Green Party of Canada, the Green Party of Ontario, or both.  Lapsed memberships can be renewed at the meeting or beforehand.  To renew your Green Party of Canada membership beforehand, click here.  To renew your Green Party of Ontario membership beforehand, click here.

If you have any questions, or would like to learn more about opportunities for involvement with local Greens, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I look forward to seeing you all on April 8th!

Sincerely,

Nicole Parker
Ottawa-Vanier Greens AGM Organizer

Website: carolinerioux.ca

Canvassing is critical to winning votes and Caroline Rioux, our newly nominated candidate, has already started. Help us win 10% of the votes! E-mail her at carolinerioux@gmail.com

Caroline Rioux is a proud Franco-Ontarian who was born and raised in Carson Grove, in the heart of Ottawa-Vanier. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and then went on to work in British Columbia and England. It was her desire to live and work in French that drove her to return to her hometown. She now works as a professional Software Designer for a large high tech firm.

Read more at carolinerioux.ca.

Last night around 30 people (some from surrounding riding’s, who couldn’t vote but were there to show support) came out to select the next Green Party candidate in Ottawa-Vanier.

The meeting was held at the Sandy Hill Community Centre and was followed up by an impromptu pub night at the Royal Oak on Laurier (who better be voting for us since we go there so often).

Caroline Rioux will be representing Ottawa-Vanier Greens and has brought some renewed excitement to the riding. While she prepares her team more and more former volunteers are back in the fold and we are readying for what will certainly be our best campaign to date.

Thanks to all of you who came out to the event and helped setup/clean-up. A special thanks to Katie and Nicole for handling the registration and other tasks that were critical in last night’s success.

I was giddy yesterday at the possibilities but now I’m pumped. Its time to start the campaign. I’ll try not to make this a habit on in my posts but what we need now is to ensure that Caroline has the resources to implement the size of campaign Ottawa-Vanier can surely support. Please donate to Ottawa-Vanier today.

The meeting will begin at 7pm sharp and we ask that everyone plan to arrive between 6:30pm and 7:00pm. We hope to have things wrapped up by 8:30 as we need to have the place cleaned up by 9pm.

The nomination meeting will be held at the Sandy Hill Community Centre at 250 Somerset Street East.

Contesting the nomination are Akbar Manoussi and Caroline Rioux. Their profiles are included below (click on “Read more”).

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Thanks to Katie Gibbs for taking the minutes.

OVG AGM Feburary 2009 (PDF)
OVG AGM Feburary 2009 (Microsoft Word)

It was a great pleasure to organize the 2009 AGM. I would like to thank the following volunteers, without whom this AGM would have been impossible

• Carole Lalonde
• Valérie Gervais
• Dave Benes
• Pamela Levac
• Katie Gibbs
• Dave Bagler
• Chris Bradshaw
• Akbar Manoussi

I would also like to thank our special speaker David Churnenshenko. We wish him well on his next documentary, Powerful.

This AGM we made a particular effort of reaching out to members. Volunteers made a particular effort of phoning good portion of the membership. For members who have indicated French as their first lanaguage, I made sure the first notice was sent in that language. The turn out, for an AGM, was relatively good with 20 people.

The results for election to the executive are as follow:

• For federal association president, incumbent Akbar Manoussi won his second term.
• For provincial association president, Dave Bagler won his first term
• For CFO, Sherri Savari and Feliks Welfeld won the position of CFO. Feliks will be the CFO for the CA and Sherri will be the CFO for the EDA.

Additionally, Darcy Hartwick volunteered for a chair position on the steering committee. On behalf of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens, I would like to thank them for taking on these crucial positions that insures the Green Party has a local presence outside of elections. As well, the prepatory work associations do for elections is invaluable.

This is the first time to my knowledge that the Ottawa-Vanier Greens have two CFOs. It is a sign of our growth and of the times to come.

As for amendments, they all passed without significant changes. The minutes will be posted as soon as they are available.

As for me (Julien Lamarche), I plan to stay involved as technical assistant (mailing lists & website) as well as organize events from time to time. My next project is organizing a call center to help out with the referendum in British-Columbia on electoral reform. The referendum will be held on May 12th, but we will begin calling as soon as possible. More details on julienlamarche.ca.

That is all for now, I hope you all had the chance to enjoy Family Day.

Yours truly,

Julien Lamarche
AGM 2009 organizer

Fellow Greens of Ottawa-Vanier,

We have a special speaker at the next annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Ottawa-Vanier Greens held this Thursday the 12th. Documentarian and former green party candidate David Chernushenko (http://www.livinglightly.ca/) is a sustainability advocate who explores and communicates ways to create healthy, abundant livelihoods for all citizens. He helps people and organizations prosper by tapping into personal values, creativity and enthusiasm and directing them toward actions that are both practical and fulfilling.

You can come hear David talk about his Living Lightly project at the next Ottawa-Vanier Greens Annual General Meeting:

Thursday February 12th 2009 at 7:00 pm
Sandy Hill Community Center, 250 Somerset E (corner of Nelson)
(Drinks and other goodies will be served.)

Transit:

• Route #16 at the door
• Route #5, #316 and Campus Transitway station within walking distance
• Route #2, #7, #14, #18, #306 within a longer walking distance

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Thursday February 12th 2009 at 7:00 pm
Sandy Hill Community Center, 250 Somerset E (corner of Nelson)

The AGM will be following as close as possible two set of rules, the Ottawa-Vanier constitution and the GPC rules of procedure for association AGMs. In all cases, the GPC rules of procedure override the OVG constitution.