Toronto IT Subgroup Meeting, July 21, 2025
Present:
Karla Yelland (President) Nuşin Brown (Secretary) Bill Sukloff
Andrea Agh (Treasurer) Mathan Mahalingam Roy Philip
Dave Darling Judy Chow Robert Mertens
Yvonne Snaddon
Absent: Faron Moses
Meeting called to order at 5:05 pm by Karla.
Approval of Agenda: The meeting agenda was reviewed and approved.
Finance Review: A financial review was done. Planned NPSW events that took place in June came under budget.
IT Toronto Sub-Group AGM 2025 Communication: Eventbrite will be used for RSVP management as in past years. Yvonne will look into a Canadian event management tool that we can use for future events as an alternative to Eventbrite.
The AGM will be a hybrid event. A zoom link will be provided also.
Action Items: Nuşin will work on preparing the notice to be posted and emailed to members. Judy to set up the Eventbrite notice.
Land acknowledgement:
Action Items: A person will be selected to give the land acknowledgement
Speakers and important topics to address: Karla reached out to National IT Group President Rob Scott, she will follow up regarding topics of discussion for pressing issues such as WFA.
Action Items: Karla to reach out to the president of PIPSC to see if he’s available to attend as a guest speaker as well.
Elections: 4 member-at-large positions and VP are up for election in 2025. Karla will be in her 2nd year as President.
Yvonne agreed to take the 1-year position that was vacated by Karla when she became President in 2024, therefore, Yvonne will be up for election along with Nuşin, Bill and Faron. Roy, Andrea, Robert, David and Mathan are in their 2nd year of the 2-year term.
Action Items: Karla to contact Stan Buday to run the election.
Question Period – possible answers to prepare: We will also add to the invite to have questions submitted ahead of the AGM to the general subgroup inbox.
Action Items: Karla to start a shared list of possible questions that could be answered ahead of time.
Prizes: We have sufficient inventory available including hats, pens and lanyards.
Action Items: Yvonne to bring from Ottawa in August other promotional items available through the National IT group.
New Business: A possible social event for August was discussed. It will however be pushed forward to the Fall due to the short timeframe. Judy made a motion to have a themed Halloween costume party pub event, location TBA. Yvonne seconded. Motion carried.
Action Items: Yvonne and Judy to plan the themed event.
Judy made a motion to spend up to $XXX to outfit the office at 4900 Yonge with coffee/tea supplies. Yvonne seconded. The previous motion put forward in September 2024 to purchase a kettle was not enacted as a kettle was purchased by management. Instead of the IT subgroup buying physical devices, we would provide supplies for the first month of the coffee club. This will be self-sustaining through a sign-up or ad hoc payments. Concerns were raised that non-union members may want to participate, or people may not honor the payment system, however, the motion was carried.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:40 pm.
Next meeting will be the AGM on September 24th.