April Board Minutes

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Regular Board Meeting Minutes

22 April 2025

 

Present:   Cathy-Ann Glockner, Maggie Jones, James Hiebert, Paul Cowan, Kate Miers, Leannah Fidler, Kay Coburn (via Zoom)

Staff Present: Ashley Elliott (HR Director, IGM), Sean Silverson (Finance Director, IGM), Amanda Verigin (Marketing Director)

Members present: Kendal Benesh 

Chair: Cathy-Ann Glockner

Recorder: Sadie Yancey (Board Administrative Assistant)

 

Meeting brought to order at 5:02 pm in the Teaching Kitchen

 

Adoption of April Meeting Agenda:  M/Maggie S/Leannah,  no amendments. All in favour.

Declaration of Interests: none

Approval of March Meeting Minutes:  M/Paul S/James, no amendments. All in favour.

Approval of consent agenda, including: 

  • Governance Committee minutes 
  • Board Development Committee minutes
  • Finance Committee did not meet
  • Member Engagement Committee minutes

M/Maggie S/Paul

A director asked about possible changes to the role of Employee Director. The Governance Committee will bring the discussion to the board at another time. 

CARRIED. All in favour.

 

Business Arising

  1. Welcome member Kendal Benesh.  Meeting participants introduced themselves. 
  2. Manager of the Month – Brooke Whitman-Roberts, Wellness Manager
    1. Due to urgent demands of her department, Brooke could not attend the meeting. 
  3. Review member feedback – Sadie shared the feedback from members this month, included with the meeting package. 
  4. Remind directors about director recruitment – The Chair of the Board Development Committee shared:
    1. Marketing has delivered the Call for Nominations. Directors were encouraged to speak to friends and collaborators who may be a good fit. 
    2. Two seats up for nomination, open until June 2, no nominations submitted yet, several members have expressed interest but none have nominated themselves.

 

IGM Report – Presented by Sean Silverson and Ashley Elliott

 

  1. Sean shared the highlights from the March financials, as circulated.  As with the last number of months, sales and net income continue to be strong, with March sales approximately 13% above the same month last year.
  2. Sean shared highlights from the record-setting Case Lot sale

 

Next Meetings:

May 20st – 4:30pm on Zoom.

June 17th – 5pm in person

no meeting in July

 

  1. Questions from member attendees 
    1. The member asked about the length of term, the process that the board uses to create and review the strategic plan. 
    2. On the member’s request, each director shared their favourite and least-favourite part of being on the board. 

 

The meeting adjourned to in-camera session at 5:42pm