Information for the 2022 Annual Meeting

/ 5 November 2022
Submitted by rasc@johnginder.com on 5 November 2022

Information for the 2022 Annual Meeting

This members-only page contains information regarding the upcoming Annual Meeting of the RASC Toronto Centre.

  • Notice of Annual Meeting
  • Zoom Meeting Details
  • Documents from the 2021 Annual Meeting
  • Proposed Slate
  • Documents for the 2022 Meeting

Notice of Annual Meeting

This message is the Notice of Annual Meeting of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, which is to be held on Wednesday, 7 December 2022.

The Annual Meeting will immediately follow the Recreational Astronomy Night presentations. As per usual, the RAN will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel for all members and the public to view. After the live-stream concludes, the Annual Meeting will commence.

The Annual Meeting will be conducted online with Zoom for interactions and voting (see below for details). The option to attend in person at the Ontario Science Centre is available, but members must register for the Zoom call even if they wish to attend in person.

RASC Toronto Centre is a not-for-profit Ontario corporation and a registered charity. The Annual Meeting is the opportunity for you to learn about what has been achieved by the Toronto Centre in fiscal year 2021-2022 and its finances.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:

      1. Adoption of the Minutes of the 2021 Annual Meeting. 
        (The Minutes in a PDF file are available for download. See below.)
      2. Business Arising from the Minutes
      3. Reports of Officers
        1.      President’s Report
        2.      Treasurer’s Report
        3.      Secretary’s Report
      4. Elections of 2022-2023 Toronto Centre Council
      5. Appointment of the Auditor
      6. Other Business
      7. Adjournment

We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting.

Lucy Winnicki, Secretary
secretary@rascto.ca

Tom Luton, President
president@rascto.ca 

  
Zoom Meeting Details

On December 7, 2022 at approximately 8:30pm Eastern Time, a virtual meeting using Zoom will be used to conduct the RASC TC Annual Meeting with electronic voting by members through polls in Zoom. To participate in the polls, you will need the free Zoom software installed on a computer or device. Visit the Zoom web site to download the app.

Pre-registration in Zoom is required for the Annual Meeting. This will inform us if we will achieve a quorum and the expected maximum number of attendees. Registration closes at 12:01am Monday 5 December 2022.

You will be prompted for your name and email address.

Register in advance for the Zoom meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdO6opzooG9D5-fyYTvAWXYeT8X…

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please let us know if you experience any difficult in registering for the event.
president@rascto.ca

 

Documents from the 2021 Annual Meeting

The Minutes from the 2021 Annual Meeting are available as a PDF file.

Submitted by 
Tom Luton
President

 

Proposed Slate

In preparation for the Annual Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 7 December, the Council is pleased to propose the following slate of candidates for the RASC Toronto Centre Council for the year 2022-2023.

Executive

Honorary President (1-year term) Dr. Roberto Abraham
President (1st of 2-year term) Tom Luton 
1st Vice-President (1st of 2-year term) Scott Masterton
2nd Vice-President (1st of 2-year term) Dr. Elaina Hyde
Treasurer (1st of 3-year term) Adrian Aberdeen
Secretary (2nd of 3-year term) Lucy Winnicki
Recorder (3rd of 3-year term) Marc Teitelbaum

Councillors

Honorary Councillors: Dietmar Kupke (1-year term)
Retiring 2023: Doug Carman, Tanya Oleksuik, Frank Dempsey
Retiring 2024: Reza Mohamed, Kirsten Vanstone, Ed Treijs
Retiring 2025: Charles Darrow, Diana Salerno, Charles Yung

1st Past President (2nd of 2-year term) Dr. B. Ralph Chou
2nd Past President (2nd of 2-year term) M. Tony Horvatin

See the RASC TC Organisation page for the current 2021-2022 Council and current committee chairs.

Additional nominations to any or all of the open positions presented by two members of the Centre and accompanied by the consent of the nominee(s) to act, if elected, may be filed with the Secretary of the Centre (secretary@rascto.ca) not less than two weeks prior to the annual meeting.

Submitted by
B. Ralph Chou
Nominations Committee

 

Documents for the 2022 Meeting

Secretary's Report

RASC-TC Financial Statements

Members may also review past Council meeting minutes.