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The 2020 RPCA Annual General Meeting will be held online on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 7:00 pm. Members of the RPCA will be able to elect 9 Directors, vote on motions, and debate important issues affecting the Riverside Park neighbourhood.

RSVP by 4:00 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 to receive the Zoom login, meeting documents, and an election ballot!

Proposal to Amend By-Law 10.2 (Moved: Joel Duff/Travis Croken. September 15, 2020)

Whereas the area names used to describe the Riverside Park neighbourhood should be updated to reflect location names used by residents, where they exist;

Whereas residents in “Riverside Park East” often refer to the neighbourhood as “General Vanier” (ie. Neighbourhood Watch and Annual Garage Sale), and residents of “Riverside Park East” most often refer to the neighbourhood as “Mooney’s Bay” (ie. Mooney’s Bay Child Care Centre); and

Whereas the similar names of 4 areas causes confusion within the neighbourhood; therefore

Be it resolved that the areas of the Riverside Park neighbourhood, as described in By-law 10.2 and depicted on the Association’s Neighbourhood Map, be renamed as follows:

• “Area 1 Riverside Park East” will be renamed “Area 1 General Vanier”;
• “Area 2 Riverside Park West” will be renamed “Area 2 Mooney’s Bay”;
• “Area 3 Riverside Park Southeast” will be renamed “Area 3 Riverside Park East”;
• “Area 4 Riverside Park Southwest” will be renamed “Area 4 Riverside Park West”;
• Area 5 Revelstoke” will remain unchanged.

Proposal to Amend By-Laws 9 and 6 to clarify and comply with requirements for treatment of year-end financial statements (Moved: RPCA Financial Review Committee)

Given that:

1. RPCA is incorporated in Ontario as a Not-for-Profit;
2. For fiscal 2021, RPCA is a ‘soliciting corporation’ under Canadian Not-for-Profit Act (CNCA), enacted 2013, and a ‘public benefit corporation’ under Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA), passed 2010;
3. With current annual revenues less than $50,000, under both CNCA and ONCA, RPCA may currently dispense with appointing a public accountant, and that future RPCA annual revenues will dictate when RPCA must engage a public practice auditor or accountant.  
4. Under governing legislation, RPCA can, and does, conduct a Compilation; and,
5. RPCA Board votes to approve the financial statements upon consideration of the Financial Review Committee’s recommendation;

Therefore, be it resolved that the following three by-laws be amended to read:

9.4 Financial Review Committee: At least one month in advance of the end of the fiscal year of the Corporation, the Board shall appoint a Financial Review Committee of other than its directors and officers, from among individuals who understand the role of an independent review of the financial records and have a basic understanding of bookkeeping. The purpose of the Financial Review Committee is to provide an independent evaluation of the financial reports and records for the purpose of reasonably verifying the reliability of the financial reporting and to determine whether the Corporation’s assets are being safeguarded. The Financial Review Committee will review a compilation of the financial statements of the Corporation as prepared by the Treasurer, along with any supporting documentation the Committee may wish to review. The independently reviewed financial statements shall be presented at the next annual meeting of Members.

9.5 At every annual meeting of Members, there shall be offered a report by the President on the activities of the Board, a report by the Treasurer on the financial position of the Corporation, a compilation of the financial statements of the Corporation reviewed by the Financial Review Committee and approved by the Board, and any other report considered desirable by the Board.

6.2 At least one Member of each committee, except the Financial Review Committee and the Nominating Committee described in Sections 9 and 11 respectively, shall be a Member of the Board.  Additional Members may be appointed from the Corporation’s Members or at the discretion of the Board, from residents living within the Corporation’s neighbourhood.

NOTICE OF MOTIONS

Except for amendment of the By-laws of the Corporation, members of the Corporation may consider and transact any business of the Corporation at any general meeting without notice of the business having been given.

However, the following motions were served in advance of the meeting:

Motion to receive the October 2, 2019 Annual General Meeting (Moved: Board of Directors. November 6, 2019)

Be it resolved that the minutes from October 2, 2019 Annual General Meeting of the Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association be received.

Motion to receive the 2019/2020 Financial Statements (Moved: Board of Directors. September 16, 2020)

Be it resolved that the 2019/2020 RPCA Financial Statements be received, as per the recommendation of the RPCA Financial Review Committee.

Other motions may be moved without notice, in accordance with the RPCA By-Laws.

We moved to Canada last October, and because of Covid we did not get many opportunities to go out of our home and meet new people.
This Community Garden is helping us spend some time outside of our home, meet our neighbors, and enjoy some family moments. 
And seeing the sprouts coming out of their seeds always brings so much joy.
The utter normalcy in these plants’ growth gives us hope that our lives will someday, in the near future, become normal again!
— Kallyan, Ethila, and Elika