The initial meeting of what would
become the Kingston and District Branch was held in the Wilson Room of the
Kingston Public Library October 5th, 1982. This resulted in the election of the
first ten member Executive Committee.
The Branch received its official
charter from National Office December 7th, 1982 and has since grown to over
3,000 members.
December 2007 saw the wrap-up of our
yearlong 25th Anniversary celebration when 30 past board members attended a
luncheon hosted by the current board of directors on December 7th, 2007 at the
Communications and Electronics Museum on Canadian Forces Base Kingston. The
purpose of the luncheon was to acknowledge the contributions made over the past
25 years by the many volunteers who gave freely of their time and talent to
bring the branch to the level of success it enjoys today.
2008 - Annual General Meeting
This year, 2008, will be a year of
change for the branch resulting from decisions taken at the Triennial
Convention held last year in Ottawa. Changes to National By-Laws now require
branches to hold at least one Annual General Meeting of the membership not
later than 1 May, and submit a report to Ottawa regarding the AGM not
later than 15 May. Therefore, although your branch held an AGM last
November, we will be changing the date of our AGM to April to meet these new
requirements. Several factors were considered in choosing April; it meets the
requirements of the By-Law; it allows sufficient time to prepare the required
report; weather/darkness is generally less of a factor in April; and many of
the snowbirds will have returned to their nests.
Hopefully these factors will help us see a larger turn
out for our AGM 2008. Look for the response form elsewhere in this issue.And
while the evening is shown as a meeting followed by dinner, members who wish to
attend the meeting only but choose not to stay for the dinner are more than
welcome to do so. Please simply indicate on your response form that you will be
attending the meeting only. We require this information to ensure we have
enough seating for all.
CORRECTION...
(Not to anything we said but) correction all the same. Last fall, Treasury Board Secretariat sent a
notice to pensioners called:
“Overview of the Amendment to the Coordination Formula of the Public
Service (PS), Canadian Forces (CF) and RCMP pension plans with the Canada
Pension Plan (CPP) or the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP).”
That notice had a box saying:
“For more information about tax implications, please visit the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) Web site at: www.cra.gc.ca/pension”.
Well, guess what; that link does not work. If you really want to get information about
the tax implications, you will have to try: http://www.cra.gc.ca/agency/budget/2006/pspp-e.html
WEB Site
Talking
of website, how many of us take a peek at the branch web site from time to time
(http://www.kingstonfsna.ca/). You know,
the Branch report comes out only four times a year but the web site is amended
as often as necessary. Any news of
importance to FSNA members is posted on the Bulletin Board of the website as we
become aware of such news. It is a much faster way to get the information out
to you than this seasonal piece of paper.
