Guy Proulx Teri Carucci Lisa Rondeau (by phone) Sheila Willis (by phone) Luisa Guyan (by phone) Joanne St-Georges Odette Beaubien Ann Perry J-F Normand Lucie Houle Robert Way
Brian McCauley Josée Dussault Wendy Potvin
Guy Proulx welcomed the directors to the meeting and welcomed Luisa Guyan as a new member. Guy asked Luisa to forward her telephone number and email address to include on the QCC website. The future agenda will include the conference call number.
The minutes of the meeting of October 25, 2017 were approved. They are already posted on the QCC website.
Teri Carucci mentioned that the bank account balance is at $5,843.61 after taking into consideration a deposit of $500 for the 2018 cruise and $1,000 deposit for the golf tournament.
This event was hosted by Wendy Potvin, Odette Beaubien and Robert Way at the Heart and Crown/Mother McGuinty’s in the Byward Market. There were approximately 50 people in attendance. The event generated $100 for the QCC from the 50/25/25. Generous donations to the Toy Mountain were well received. The location will remain the same for next year.
The AGM information and election of officers will occur during the boat cruise event.
To be hosted at Robbie’s St. Laurent location by Guy Proulx, Brian McCauley, and Odette Beaubien. Robert will be in charge of the 50/50 tickets. We now have 21 people registered. Sheila will send a reminder in the next few days.
To be hosted by Ann Perry
To be hosted by Jean-François Normand and Lisa Rondeau
To be hosted at Hammond Golf and Country Club by Lucie Houle and Robert Way. The cost will remain at $100 although the course cost has increased by $5.00. Luisa mentioned that she would like to help with this event.
To be hosted by Guy Proulx, Lisa Rondeau and Joanne St-Georges The YPN will be invited to participate again this year and a very brief AGM will be held on board. The same larger boat has been reserved and the duration of the cruise will remain three hours with tickets limited to first 200 in order to ensure sufficient space for everyone.
To be hosted by Lucie Houle and Johanne St-Georges Joanne and Lucie will explore venues, other than the RA Centre and report back to the committee.
To be hosted by Ann Perry and date to be confirmed
To be hosted by Wendy Potvin and Robert Way. The event will encourage voluntary donations of unwrapped toys for “Toy Mountain”
Guy will explore the possibility of having a luncheon at the Lac Leamy Casino in Gatineau or at the Hilton, next door.
Jean François Normand and Joanne St-Georges will follow up on potential local sites and dates for wine tasting. The Perreault Winery in Navan could be a possibility for sometime in June. Luisa will look into flights of wine and/or beer as a potential other event.
Lucie mentioned that she communicated with the contact for Paintnite on three occasions and is still waiting for the information on how to set up an event exclusively for QCC members. One suggestion was for the QCC to buy 20 groupons for one evening and sell those to the QCC members. It would be a risk to the QCC if not all tickets are sold. No decision was made on this potential event. More to come.
Johanne St-Georges and Brian McCauley will continue looking for a replacement venue after Joanne has been able to contact the hosts of the event..
Guy Proulx will investigate this as a potential site depending on price and availability
Odette volunteered to gather information about possible venues, cost and dates. Item will be carried to next meeting.
Guy will investigate prices and availability to rent a bus to visit Mount Tremblant village. Activities available include restaurants, casino, gondola ride to view colours. the risk is to rent the bus, then fail to fill it.
Possibility of an evening of darts will be explored – venue, price, days with no league play.
Nothing new to report.
Guy would like to attend the ITB and Audit management meetings shortly. He will work with Ann Perry and Luisa Guyan to set up those invitations. At those meetings, Guy will ask for the names of their respective branch long service coordinators so that we can send them a reminder to include the QCC letter when sending the long service information. Lucie will ensure the letter is up-to-date.
Ann will send instructions to everyone.
Ann Perry asked all members to provide non-gc.ca email addresses to facilitate this. Apparently emails originating from government workstations seem to go out but in fact cannot be forwarded to gc.ca addresses. She will send instructions to everyone.
Consideration of more Qs&As on the website deferred to next meeting.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 5:00 pm at the Train Yards.