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Saturday February 20, 2016

Annual General Meeting AGENDA

1 Call to order – Elizabeth Sellers

2 Approval of Agenda 3 New Business

3.1 AGM minutes for approval by membership

3.2 Changes to By – laws 3.3 Liability insurance

3 President report – Elizabeth Sellers

4 Treasurer’s report – Nancy Gagne 5 Secretary report – Ereny Bassilious 6 Standing committee reports:

6.1 CPEN update – Wendy Schwartz

6.2 fellowship committee report – Celia Rodd

6.3 Scientific planning committee – Beth Cummings

7 Elections/Openings on Executive – Liz Sellers

8 Collaborative projects update:

8.1 Global health project in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes update – Jean-Pierre Chanoine

8.2 TrialNet – Diane Wherrett

8.3 Survey on GH and IGF1 assays – Heather Power


8.4 Diabetes in Schools initiatives – Sarah Lawrence

8.5 CPSP and iCARE– surveillance for non-T1DM in Children and Youth part

8.6 A pan-Canadian Registry to study the long-term outcome of children with

proven 5alpha reductase deficiency treated with transdermal DHT – Rebecca Perry

8.7 CPSP: Persistent albuminuria in youth with T2D

8.8 Solucortef administration in the community by paramedic - Mabel Tan

and Nicole Kirouac 9 Round table: positions and news

10 New business:

12. Next CPEG Annual General Meeting: Hamilton, ON February 9-11, 2017

13. Adjournment of the meeting


Saturday February 20, 2016 Annual General Meeting

MINUTES Attendees:

Ereny Bassilious (recorder), Nathalie Alos, Naseem Alyahyawi, Shazhan Amed, Allison Bahm, Sanjukta Basak, Rebecca Brook, Erica Burry, Barbara Butler, JP Chanoine, Isabelle Chapados, Daphne Cloutier, Nicole Coles, Elizabeth Cummings, Jacqueline Curtis, Cheri Deal, Jonathan Dawrant, Manpreet Doulla, Dardye Eugene, Andrea Ens, Leona Fishman, Danya Fox, Brenda Fraser, Jennifer Galle, Patricia Gallego, Nancy Gagne, Margaret Gan Gaisano, Ronelda Gillis, Chiraz Ghaddhab, Rose Girgis, Jennifer Harrington, Andrea Haqq, Irena Hozjan, Brenden Hursh, Paule Kahlke, Nicole Kirouac, Susan Kirsh, Sarah Lawrence, Paola Luca, Farid Mahmud, Seth Marks, Dan Metzger, Maude Millette, Arati Mokashi, Susan Murphy, Wendy Murphy, Munier Nour, Colleen Nugent, Patricia Olivier, Mark Palmert, Rebecca Perry, Heather Power, Katie Pundyk, Marie-Eve Robinson, Celia Rodd, Elizabeth Rosolowsky, Isabelle Rousseau-Nepton, Susan Rybansky, Susan Sanderson, Wendy Schwarz, Rachel Scott, Elizabeth Sellers, Scott Somerville, Mabel Tan, Stacey Urbach, John VanderMeulen, Jonathan Wasserman, Diane Wherrett, Meg Wolfe-Wylie, Daphne Yau, Stacy Zahanova, Stephen Zborovski, Caroline Zuijdwijk

All reports were circulated before hand

1 Call to order – Elizabeth Sellers Welcome to new members The AGM was called to order by Elizabeth Sellers, President, at 08h05

2 Approval of Agenda Beth Cummings moved and Ereny Bassilious seconded that the agenda be approved. Passed by show of hands

3 New Business

3.1 The AGM minutes will be posted in English within 1 month of the AGM. French translation will follow as quickly as possible. They will be available for 1 month for CPEG member feedback. After that time the AGM minutes will be accepted and approved at the next CPEG executive committee teleconference.


3.2 Changes to By – laws: 3.2.1 CPEG’s recent incorporation and need for liability insurance necessitate some changes in the bylaws (wording etc). 3.2.2 Term for president elect 1 year, president 2 years, past

president 1 yr. 3.2.3 Revised bylaws will be posted on the portal and

approved by E-vote – need 50% participation 3.3 Liability insurance – CPEG will be moving forward with purchasing

liability insurance

4 President report – Elizabeth Sellers

The Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group (CPEG) began more than 20 years ago as a group of clinician-researchers participating in a pan-Canadian clinical study and became an independent professional association in 2005. Our membership continues to grow and in 2015 stood at 187. In the past year, CPEG has focused on the following activities: 4.1 Incorporation update

CPEG was formally incorporated in July of 2015. We are currently looking at options for liability insurance for our group.

4.2 Annual scientific meeting The meeting held in Halifax in February 2015 was attended by 156 delegates and feedback was very positive.

4.3 On-going support of the CPEG Fellowship Program: This program was established in 1992 to promote the development of Pediatric Endocrinology in Canada and has continually functioned since that time. Three, one year fellowships were awarded for the academic year 2015/2016. Support secured for fellowship program support for 2016-2017 (awardees to be announced at 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting)

4.4 Accomplishments: 4.4.1 CPEG and the Canadian Paediatric Society issued a joint statement in October of 2014 entitled “Managing type 1 diabetes in school: recommendations for policy and practice. This statement was published in Pediatrics and Child Health in 2015. (Peds and Child Health 2015:20(1): 35-39.) 4.4.2 First electronic version of the International Classification of

Pediatrics Endocrine Diagnoses (ICPED) was released in 2015. Dr. JP Chanoine was involved in this initiative and it has been formally endorsed by CPEG.


4.5 CPEG website: On-going development of our website: the site can be accessed at cpeg-gcep.net.

5 Treasurer’s report – Nancy Gagne 5.1 Financial Statements/ Audit report / Etat des comptes

5.1.1 External audit completed by an accountant and report will be posted on the website. -Notice to reader – the accountant has used information provided by the treasurer to verify that books are in order. The accounting costs for 2015 was $2242. Ongoing cost is approximately $1725 per year.

5.1.2 CPEG filed its first income tax report for 2015. 5.1.3 Surplus of approx.. $73000 in 2015. So our net worth is

approx. $498 000 5.1.4 Investments short term vs. longer term (approx. 50-50) 5.1.5 Major new fees for 2016+:

-liability insurance. $1200/year. -membership Wild Apricot $480/year if our current platform cannot incorporate membership payment tracking. -website maintenance (TBD)

5.1.6 Registration with Corporations Canada is completed. Will need to update current by-laws to change related items to Corporations Canada

Please see attached documents for itemized income and expenses for 2015 and accountant reports.

• Dan Metzger moved and Celia Rodd seconded that the treasurer’s report be accepted as presented. Approved by show of hands.

• Dan Metzger moved and Celia Rodd seconded to continue hiring the same accounting firm as last year: Villeneuve Gagné Stébenne Proulx. Approved by show of hands.

6 Secretary report – Ereny Bassilious 6.1 Currently 164 members that includes 93 paediatric endocrinologists, 6

retired endocrinologists, 1 researcher, 1 resident, 35 nurses, and 28 fellows.

6.2 All members are asked to update contact information and keep the secretary informed when there are changes.

6.3 Membership fees are due by March 31st of each year. Unpaid dues for 1 year will lead to loss of CPEG website access. Unpaid dues for 2 years will lead to loss of membership and need to reapply for membership.


6.4 Upcoming initiatives for the CPEG website include forums for different groups (fellows, nursing, executive, program directors of endocrine fellowships) as well as tabs for sharing resources.

7 Standing committee reports:

7.1 CPEN update – Wendy Schwartz 7.1.1 Upcoming CPEN Executive Election:

Two positions open; Treasurer and Director. Candidates for both. TBA after the CPEN AGM

7.1.2 Portal Library: Documents starting to be uploaded to the CPEN portion of the CPEG portal. The aim is to have a repository of parent teaching handouts that any center can access.

7.1.3 Competencies: A committee has been struck to look at developing Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Nursing competencies.

7.1.4 Funding: Five Nurses received financial support to attend ESPE, PENS, Endo Society and CPATH.

7.1.5 Motivational Interviewing Workshop: CPEN hosted a 2-day workshop with Rachel Green PhD, psychologist, counselor and Motivational Interviewer facilitator. Sixteen Nurses attended. Many thanks to Susan Rybansky, who organized this outstanding event.

7.1.6 WEBEX: CPEN hosted two WEBEX seminars this past year. One on Transgender and one for the launch of the new Turner Fertility brochure. Planning on hosting 3 this coming year.

7.1.7 International Nurses’ Meeting in 2017: CPEN is participating in the planning for the full day Nursing conference at the upcoming Joint ESPE and Ped Endo Society meeting, in Washington in 2017.

7.1.8 Accomplishments: 7.1.8.1 Nicole Kiourac (Wpg) and Eileen Pyra (Calgary) have a

poster (A Nursing Perspective: Best practice for pubertal suppression for individuals with central precocious puberty and transgender) at this year’s CPEG meeting.

7.1.8.2 Barb Butler, (Edmonton) was nominated for Nursing Excellence in Clinical Practice. These awards are given out annually by the College of AB Reg Nurses’ Association.


7.1.8.3 Brenda Fraser, (Ottawa), was a speaker at the TS National conference in Winnipeg. Transitioning to adult care.

7.1.8.4 Nicole Kiourac authored the new PENS position statement for Transgender Youth. As well as coauthored the PENS position statement of Linear Growth Measurements in Children was published in Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

7.1.8.5 Nicole presented at ENDO 2015 on “Endocrine Nursing care for Transgender Individuals”.

7.1.8.6 Irena Hozjan (HSC) Presented at PENS, ESPE, and Turner Syndrome Society of Canada-Toronto chapter. Invited article/submission reviewer for Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

7.2 fellowship committee report – Celia Rodd

7.2.1 Funding: We continued to have generous support from 4 companies (Eli Lilly Canada Inc. Novo Nordisk Canada, Sandoz Canada Inc., EMD Serono); this raised about $205,000. Two companies who previously funded our Fellowships were unable to provide support for the 2016-2017 competition.

7.2.2 We received 6 applications for Fellowship salary support and 2 applications for funding of a shared project (operating support).

7.2.3 The committee was comprised of Dr. Mark Sherman (adult endocrinology-McGill), Drs. Beth Cummings (Halifax), Robert Stein (London, ON) and Carol Huang (Calgary). Dr. Shazhan Amed graciously recused herself because she was the supervisor of several trainee applications.

7.2.4 The stipend for salary remained static at $75,000. 7.2.5 We welcomed operating grant applications though salary support

was considered a priority. 7.2.6 Small revisions to the terms of reference were discussed at the

February 2016 Executive Committee meeting. This includes provision for substitute reviewers if a current committee member is a supervisor on a proposed project.

7.2.7 Additionally, we discussed that applications for operating funding should be better defined. The Fellowship committee felt that publication costs and travel were not the ideal use of the operating grant award. We will further define this with the Executive to clarify this prior to the 2016-2017 competition.

7.2.8 The application deadline for Fellowships will be Monday November 21, 2016.


7.2.9 Dr. Beth Cummings has stepped down from the committee and we thank her for her longstanding commitment and support.

7.3 Scientific planning committee – Beth Cummings

7.3.1 The scientific meeting planning committee includes members from the host institution, CPEG executive committee and CPEN.

7.3.2 We continue to employ the services of UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education to assist with the organization and logistics of the meeting.

7.3.3 A successful meeting was held in Halifax in 2015. 7.3.4 This year’s meeting in Edmonton has presentations from CPEG

members, local Edmonton and international experts and has the more registrants than any prior of any CPEG meeting.

7.3.5 Abstracts were accepted online again this year, with 12 oral presentations and 8 posters. We are trying a new approach to encourage interaction with posters including a short 1 slide teaser to be presented at the opening on Friday morning and chaired poster walks.

7.3.6 Our meetings continue to be supported by a combination of unrestricted educational grants from industry partners and registration fees.

7.3.7 The committee, in cooperation with the executive, is in the process of finalizing the terms of reference and developing standard procedure documents to assist the committee’s ongoing function and consistency.

7.3.8 The committee and executive are also in the process of reviewing the new National Standards of Support for Accredited CPD activities to ensure that we remain in compliance with national standards.

7.3.9 Timing of meeting for 2018 will continue to be in February because of other conflicting scientific meetings and major holidays

8 Elections/Openings on Executive – Liz Sellers

8.1 Position for president elect remains open until March 31st. Candidates are to submit a short bio that will posted on the portal. Candidates must be members in good standing. Once the roster of candidates is established voting will take place by e-vote (50% participation needed for e-vote for it to be valid vote).


9 Collaborative projects update: (details will be made available on CPEG portal)

9.1 Global health project in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes update – Jean-Pierre Chanoine Feedback given to JP that emails from GPED going to junk mail. JP Chanoine will address this with GPED.

9.2 TrialNet – Diane Wherrett Several change over last few years have occurred aimed at making it easier for families that are not living close to a TrialNet site: - Can send out test kits by calling the 1-800-number. - Use of capillary samples taken by the participants in their home is being explored. Trial net has large database and samples, which is accessible to anyone through a simple application form.

9.3 Survey on GH and IGF1 assays – Heather Power Will start a revalidation of assays and cutoffs

9.4 Diabetes in Schools initiatives – Sarah Lawrence Resources to be used by schools nationally Decision: online module depending on participants roles in the schools will chose the level of module to do use Sarah Lawrence asked if anyone interested in reviewing documents/ education material to contact her.

9.5 CPSP and iCARE– surveillance for non-T1DM in Children and Youth #2 – Shazhan Amed and Liz Sellers

iCARE and CPSP collaboration a) iCARE – Improving renal Complications in Adolescents with type 2 diabetes through RE search Multiple centres across country are involved. If other centres interested to contact Liz Sellers or Brandy Wicklow b) CPSP collaboration – original study done in 2006-2008. Purpose to determine the prevalence of non-type 1 diabetes and the trends over the past 10 years. There is an add-on piece: option of pancreatic autoantibodies that may not be available clinically and molecular genetic testing. Patient consent needed for this add on piece. c) iCARE and CPSP combined efforts


9.6 A pan-Canadian Registry to study the long-term outcome of children with proven 5alpha reductase deficiency treated with transdermal DHT – Rebecca Perry

9.7 CPSP: Persistent albuminuria in youth with T2D – J peds 2016:168:112-7 and second manuscript in progress

9.8 Solucortef administration in the community by paramedic - Mabel Tan

and Nicole Kirouac Mabel was contacted by Addison society contact to explore how CPEG could support the initiative for paramedics to be able to administer – request is whether we could come up with a statement of dosing based on size. The team will use the general forum to get feedback to draft a letter endorsed by CPEG

10 Round table:

10.1 Available job positions in Canada: • St. Justine has 2 positions: 1 will be filled by Lynn Chiniarra, and

the other one is a clinician scientist position • Ottawa – possibility of 6-9 months mat leave coverage • Manitoba - Heather Dean retired, 1 position available • Saskatchewan – Mark Inman joined in August, 1 new nurse,

hoping to have 1 posting for MD for summer 2017

11 New business: 11.1 CPEG will initiate and present an award for exemplary and ongoing

service to CPEG on an ad hoc basis.

This year’s award went to Dr. Daniel Metzger; he received a standing ovation.

12. Next CPEG Annual General Meeting: Hamilton, ON February 9-11, 2017

13. Adjournment of the meeting -The meeting was adjourned at 1005.

February 11, 2016

CPEG Fellowship Committee for 2015

1) Funding: We continued to have generous support from 4 companies (Eli LillyCanada Inc Novo Nordisk Canada, Sandoz Canada Inc., EMD Serono); this raisedabout $205,000. Two companies who previously funded our Fellowships wereunable to provide support for the 2016-2017 competition.2) We received 6 applications for Fellowship salary support and 2 applications forfunding of a shared project (operating support).3) The committee was comprised of Dr Mark Sherman (adult endocrinology-McGill),Drs Beth Cummings (Halifax), Robert Stein (London, ON) and Carol Huang (Calgary).Dr Shazhan Amed graciously recused herself because she was the supervisor ofseveral trainee applications.4) The stipend for salary remained static at $75,000.5) We welcomed operating grant applications though salary support was considereda priority.6) Small revisions were discussed or are being at the February 2016 ExecutiveCommittee meeting. This involve including substitute reviewers if a currentcommittee member is a supervisor on a proposed project.

Additionally, we discussed that applications for operating funding should be better defined. The Fellowship committee felt that publication costs and travel were not likely ideal use of the operating grant award. We will further define this with the Executive to clarify this prior to the 2016-2017 competition. 7) The application deadline for Fellowships will be Monday November 21, 2016.8) Dr Beth Cummings has stepped down from the committee and we thank her forher longstanding commitment and support.

CPEG Scientific Committee Report 2015

Submitted by Beth Cummings, Chair

The scientific meeting planning committee includes members from the host institution, CPEG executive committee and CPEN. We continue to employ the services of UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education to assist with the organization and logistics of the meeting. A successful meeting was held in Halifax in 2015. This year’s meeting in Edmonton has presentations from CPEG members, local Edmonton and international experts and has the more registrants than any prior of any CPEG meeting. Abstracts were accepted online again this year, with 12 oral presentations and 8 posters. We are trying a new approach to encourage interaction with posters including a short 1 slide teaser to be presented at the opening on Friday morning and chaired poster walks. Our meetings continue to be supported by a combination of unrestricted educational grants from industry partners and registration fees.

The committee, in cooperation with the executive, is in the process of finalizing the terms of reference and developing standard procedure documents to assist the committee’s ongoing function and consistency. The committee and executive are also in the process of reviewing the new National Standards of Support for Accredited CPD activities to ensure that we remain in compliance with national standards.

Presidents Report 2015

The Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group (CPEG) began more than 20 years ago as a group of clinician-researchers participating in a pan-Canadian clinical study and became an independent professional association in 2005. Our membership continues to grow and in 2015 stood at 187.

In the past year, CPEG has focused on the following activities:

1) Incorporation: CPEG was formally incorporated in July of 2015. We are currentlylooking at options for liability insurance for our group.

2) Annual scientific meeting: the meeting held in Halifax in February 2015 was attended by156 delegates and feedback was very positive.

3) On-going support of the CPEG Fellowship Program: this program was established in1992 to promote the development of Pediatric Endocrinology in Canada and hascontinually functioned since that time. Three, one year fellowships were awarded for theacademic year 2015/2016. Support secured for fellowship program support for 2016-2017 (awardees to be announced at 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting)

4) CPEG and the Canadian Paediatric Society issued a joint statement in October of 2014entitled “Managing type 1 diabetes in school: recommendations for policy and practice.This statement was published in Pediatrics and Child Health in 2015. (Peds and ChildHealth 2015:20(1): 35-39.)

5) First electronic version of the International Classification of Pediatrics EndocrineDiagnoses (ICPED) was released in 2015. Dr. JP Chanoine was involved in this initiativeand it has been formally endorsed by CPEG.

6) On-going development of our website: the site can be accessed at cpeg-gcep.net.

Respectfully submitted,

Elizabeth Sellers

http://cpeg-gcep.net/

Chair of the Nursing Affairs Committee AKA CPEN President’s Report for 2015

Membership: 35 Active members - Upcoming CPEN Executive Election: Two positions open; Treasurer and Director.

Candidates for both. TBA after the CPEN AGM- Portal Library: documents starting to be uploaded to the CPEN portion of the CPEG portal.

The aim is to have a repository of parent teaching handouts that any centre can access.- Competencies: a committee has been struck to look at developing Canadian Pediatric

Endocrine Nursing competencies.- Funding: Five Nurses received financial support to attend ESPE, PENS, Endo Society and

CPATH.- Motivational Interviewing Workshop: CPEN hosted a 2 day workshop with Rachel Green

PhD, psychologist, counsellor and Motivational Interviewer facilitator. Sixteen Nursesattended. Many thanks to Susan Rybansky, who organized this outstanding event.

- WEBEX: CPEN hosted two WEBEX seminars this past year. One on Transgender and onefor the launch of the new Turner Fertility brochure. Planning on hosting 3 this coming year.

- International Nurses’ Meeting in 2017: CPEN is participating in the planning for the fullday Nursing conference at the upcoming Joint ESPE and Ped Endo Society meeting, inWashington in 2017.

- Accomplishments: Nicole Kiourac (Wpg) and Eileen Pyra (Cgy) have a poster (A NursingPerspective: Best practice for pubertal suppression for individuals with central precociouspuberty and transgender) at this year’s CPEG meeting.

- Barb Butler, (Edmo) was nominated for Nursing Excellence in Clinical Practice. These awardsare given out annually by the College of AB Reg Nurses’ Association.

- Brenda Fraser, (Ottawa), was a speaker at the TS National conference in Winnipeg.Transitioning to adult care.

- Nicole Kiourac authored the new PENS position statement for Transgender Youth. As well ascoauthored the PENS position statement of Linear Growth Measurements in Children waspublished in Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Nicole presented at ENDO 2015 on “Endocrine Nursing care for Transgender Individuals”.

- Irena Hozjan (HSC) Presented at PENS, ESPE, and Turner Syndrome Society of Canada-Toronto chapter. Invited article/submission reviewer for Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

Treasurer’s report for the Fiscal Year ending

December 31, 2015 Dr. Nancy Gagné

Treasurer

CPEG annual general meeting

2015 2014

Income: -Meeting sponsorship -Fellowship sponsorship -Registration meeting -Membership fees -Interest

424 149 167 500 225 000 17 383 5 754 8 512

268 469 120 000 120 000 19 155

4 954 4 360

Expenses: -Fellowships -Growth curves -Office costs -Website fees -Organization of meeting -Travel expenses -Bailey Award -Professional services

350 847 225 000

0 11 0

113 557 7 512

500 4 267

177 852 60 000 4 341

- 1 654

106 062 3 000

500 2 295

SURPLUS 73 302 90 617

Income & Expenses: Accountant’s table

Current assets and liabilities Current assets 2015 2014

Cash Reserve for fellowship Reserve for scientific meeting Short term investments Term deposit investment TOTAL

48 556 177 493 112 500 228 411 225 240 792 200

25 769 229 840 80 000

376 360 25 000

736 969

Current liabilities

Deferred for fellowship Deferred for membership 2016-2018 Deferred for scientific meeting 2016 TOTAL

177 493 3 546

112 500 293 539

229 840 1 772

80 000 311 612

NET ASSETS 498 661 425 357

� 2015 opening balance

� Surplus/deficit 2015

� 2015 closing balance

$ 425 359

$ 73 302

$ 498 661

2015 Balance

VOTE

� Approval of the financial statements.

� Motion to hire the same accounting firm for next year: Villeneuve, Gagné, Stébenne, Proulx.

Expenses for 2016

�  Lawyer fees: � Awaiting invoice for help with registration services.

�  Accountant fees: � $1725 for preparation of ‘notice to readers’ + tax filing (invoice received).

�  Liability insurance: fees to be determined (estimate of $1200/year)

Expenses for 2016 �  Membership program:

�  Looking into membership maintenance program that will be easier to use and track vs. change in website altogether in order to incorporate this capability. �  $40 per month for Wild Apricot (used by CSEM). �  $5000 for new website

�  Website maintenance: free maintenance of website for 2016 but we need a hosting service ($200 per year)

�  Translation services: by-laws and minutes of CPEG meeting + other things. ($2000)

Budget predictions

Edmonton Halifax Montreal Quebec City Winnipeg Toronto 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Sponsorship of meeting $145,000.00 $167,500 $120,000 $115,598.00 $112,326.00 $110,000.00 Scientific meeting registrations $14,755.00

$17,383 $19,155 $12,642.00 $12,380.00 $12,214.30

Membership payments $4,772.00 $5,754.00 $4,954.00 $4,281.00 $3,920.00 $4,950.00 IN $164,527.00 $190,637 $144,109 $132,521.00 $128,626.00 $127,164.30 Cost of scientific meeting $137,000.00 $114,057 $106,562 $105,359.47 $97,151.15 $104,092.08 AGM expenses/travel $7,500.00 $7,512 $3,000 $3,998.50 $2,936.87 $2,032.89 Website $200.00 $0.00 $1,656.00 Membership software $480.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Liability insurance $1,200.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Accountant fees $1,725.00 $2,519.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Translation services $2,000.00 $1,929.00 $952.00 Lawyer fees $5,000.00 $1,296.00 OUT $155,105.00 $126,017.00 $113,466.00 $109,357.97 $100,088.02 $106,124.97 EXCESS or LOSS $9,422.00 $64,620.00 $30,643.00 $23,163.03 $28,537.98 $21,039.33

Fees increase decisions

�  Registration fees increased for 2017.

�  No increase in the membership fees.

Update on membership payments as of meeting date 2016

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Cheque/cash

66 56 8 14 5

Paypal 0 22 87 83 83

Total 66 (51%) 78 (60%) 95 (74%) 97 (75%) 88 (68%)

Based on 129 active paying members which is a better estimate of our total membership:

TOTAL MEMBERS: 164 Ereny has the breakdown by category

Membership payment schedule

Membership year Fee Dues paid by

2015

0/$50/$60

March 31st, 2015

2016 $70 March 31st, 2016

2017 $70 March 31st, 2017

-Early bird registration must be paid prior to registration for the meeting -unpaid members for 1 year lose website access (check with Dan) -unpaid members for 2 years will need to reapply to become members