2025 Prairie North Co-op AGM

Prairie North Co-operative Ltd Annual General Meeting Minutes
Via Virtual TEAMS Mtg.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Total attendance: 21 online + 7 in person = 28

1. Call to Order - Ed Dufault, President
Time: 7:05 pm

Agenda
2025 AGM Agenda distributed in the pre-registration package. Call for additional agenda items. There were none put forward. Agenda followed as distributed.

2. Call to Accept Minutes of 2024 Annual General Meeting
2024 Minutes distributed in the pre-registration package. Call for additions, errors, and/or omissions. There were none put forward.
Motion to accept moved by Larry Kohl
Seconded, Mario Bouvier
Opposed, none
Carried

3. Business Arising from Minutes
Call for business arising from the minutes. There was none put forward.

4. President's Report - Ed Dufault
The President’s Report was distributed in the pre-registration package.

5. General Managers Report - Terry Tremblay
The General Manger’s Report on operations was distributed in the pre-registration package.

6. Review of Auditor's Report and Financial Statement - Terry Tremblay
The Auditor’s Report was distributed in the pre-registration package.

7. Delegate's Report – Ed Dufault
Myself, Jim Zemluk, Monica Sochaski, John Knudson and Rick Peters attended FCL’s 96th Annual Meeting in March, a brief summary was included in the pre-registration package.
Call for questions arising from the reports. There were none put forward.
Call to Accept the reports as distributed.

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Motion to accept moved by Denis Sunderland
Seconded, Terri Larsen
Opposed, none
Carried

8. Results of Director Election
Please join me in congratulating Trent Fedorychka and Monica Sochaski on their re-election to the Prairie North Co-op Board of Directors, and welcome to new board member, Lori Fettes. I would like to take this opportunity to thank John Knudson for his significant years of service on the Board.
Call for motion to destroy the ballots from the 2025 Board of Directors Election.
Motion to destroy the ballots moved by Jim Zemluk.
Seconded, Lorne McConaghy
Opposed, none
Carried

9. Appointment of Auditors
One of the primary duties of this meeting is to appoint the auditors of the Prairie North Co-operative for the 2025 fiscal year. The board acknowledges that it has used the services of Myers Norris Penny (MNP) here in Melfort for the past 9 years. Their understanding of our business model in conjunction with Federated Co-op internal audits has worked extremely well to report their findings to the members and the board. The board would like to recommend to the members of this meeting that we continue to use the services of MNP for the 2025 fiscal year.
Motion to appoint moved by Martin Green
Seconded, Rick Peters
Opposed, none
Carried

10. New Business: Call for new business
Terry Tremblay, were there any questions submitted in advance? Yes, there was a written question submitted regarding the 2024 allocation which the President’s Report addresses.
Terri Larsen, were there any questions submitted via the chat? No
Are there any questions from the floor? There were none

11. Meeting Adjourned
Time: 7:25 pm

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