Innovation Fall 2024

BOARD NEWS

Board meetings highlights Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Board meets throughout the year. The following are highlights from its most recent meetings. 2024/2025 Budget approved At its May 29 meeting, Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Board approved the budget for the organization’s 2024/2025 fiscal year. The budget includes a less than three percent increase to licensing fees ($15) which will take effect in January 2025. The budget accounts for additional resources to manage demands on regulatory processes – including significant increases to application, licensing, and exam volumes, as well as increased investigation and discipline files – and also anticipates the impact of divesting revenue-generating advocacy activities through mid-2025. Despite these added pressures, the Board was able to analyze and refine the budget to ensure the organization could advance this work while also keeping licensing

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fee increases to a minimum, proceeding only with an adjustment to keep up with inflation. Additional work supported by the budget includes engagement with government on strategic priorities, an improved volunteer management program, engagement with registrants to seek feedback on key issues, and ongoing work to improve the organization’s foundational programs related to data governance, equity, diversity and inclusion, Truth and Reconciliation, and climate change. 2024 AGM rules of order approved At its June 21 meeting, the Board approved recommendations from the Governance Sub-Committee for the Rules of Order for the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will take place in a hybrid format on October 16, 2024. The rules include some updates, following the organization’s first hybrid AGM in 2023, to ensure the meeting is efficient and effective in a hybrid format. This includes confirming that voting will take place electronically for all participants, considering accessibility options for those who cannot vote electronically, and enabling the Chair to determine the method of voting in the event it cannot proceed electronically.

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Fall 2024

Innovation