Governing Ourselves informs members of legal and regulatory matters affecting the profession. This section provides updates on licensing and qualification requirements, notification of Council resolutions and reports from various Council committees, including reports on accreditation and discipline matters.
Summary – June 7-8, 2012
at its June 7-8 meeting, College Council
➔ approved recommendations in the report from the Honourable Patrick J. LeSage CM, OONT, QC. Six of the 49 recommendations have been referred to the Investigation, Discipline, Fitness to Practise and Quality Assurance committees for further study and report to the November 2012 Council meeting
➔ accepted the College’s December 31, 2011, audited financial statements and reappointed PwC as auditor for the 2012 fiscal year
➔ made Council’s prior approval mandatory for any spending over the combined total of the College’s operating and capital budgets in any fiscal year
➔ enabled the Registrar to change any budget line by not more than 1 per cent of the College’s total approved expenditures provided that any such reallocation have no effect on the total approved expenditures
➔ ordered that changes exceeding one per cent to any budget line be reviewed and given prior approval by the Finance Committee;
➔ approved that the Finance Committee be notified at every meeting of funding reallocations made by management among major items in the operating and capital budgets
➔ amended the Council Member Travel policy to:
- limit the daily meal expense allowance to $86, including tax and gratuity ($16 for breakfast, $20 for lunch and $50 for dinner)
- eliminate claims for lunch or dinner when either meal is provided at the College
- accept reasonable claims for reimbursement for transportation to and from the hotel and restaurant if the cab(s) is shared by parties to the meal
- refuse reimbursement for LCBO or wine store purchases, grocery items, and alcohol consumed at meals
- disallow reimbursement for meals consumed at home prior to departure or return or for meals included in the cost of transportation, accommodation, seminars and/or conferences
- replace Latitude airfares with Tango Plus or equivalent economy airfare with another carrier as the standard for Council member travel.
➔ approved the College becoming a regular member in the OMERS pension plan, thereby saving the College $7,000 annually
➔ recommended several changes to Additional Qualifications courses to the Minister of Education so that:
- Français — 7e et 8e année, Teaching Michif, and Teaching Inuktitut AQ courses be added to Schedule C of the Teachers’ Qualifications Regulation
- the Enseignement en milieu minoritaire, Leadership en milieu minoritaire, and First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples: Understanding Traditional Teachings, Histories, Current Issues and Cultures AQ courses could be removed from Schedule C in the Teachers’ Qualifications Regulation
- a three-part course leading to an AQ called Enseignement et Leadership en situation minoritaire be added to Schedule D of the Teachers’ Qualifications Regulation
- the name Religious Education/Études religieuses AQ course be changed to Religious Education in Catholic Schools/Éducation religieuse en milieu scolaire catholique in Schedules A, D and E
- the name of the Environmental Science/Environmental Studies AQ be changed to Environmental Science in Schedule E
- First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples: Understanding Traditional Teachings, Histories, Current Issues and Cultures AQ course could be added to Schedule D
- the Program for Teaching Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing be reworded to reflect three separate qualifications – Teaching Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing – American Sign Language (ASL); Programme pour enseigner aux éleves sourds ou malentendants – Langue designation signes québécoise (LSQ); Teaching Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing – Aural and Oral Communication
- Supporting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Students: Guidance and Counselling AQ course to Schedule D of the Teachers’ Qualifications Regulation.
➔ recommended to the Minister of Education that the Act be changed to ensure that either the College Registrar or Deputy Registrar’s position be bilingual
➔ amended College bylaws to create hyperlinks on the College’s website to link Discipline Committee decisions to the public register
➔ approved a motion to ask the Minister of Education to change terminology in the College’s Act to replace “Suspended – non-payment of fees” with “Inactive/non-practising” on the College’s public register and to maintain “Retired” as a category for those who meet existing requirements
➔ approved destroying the electronic ballots associated with the 2012 Council election.