At the Annual General Meeting find out about all the Biosphere Association's programs and efforts over the past year. Learn how we are working to restore a wetland, preserve our dark sky, improve water quality and develop conservation and stewardship strategies that will protect this beautiful place we call home. Everyone is welcome!

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Keynote presentation

Our guest speaker this year, Scott Parent, is a Canadian filmmaker, photographer and environmentalist based on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula.  He is best known for his visual storytelling of Georgian Bay, his advocacy for Lake Huron, and his documented wilderness expeditions.

Voting Membership Change at AGM

We will be voting on an important change to our voting membership rules. The Board is recommending that we no longer limit voting members to property owners on the Northern Bruce Peninsula and instead expand it to Ontario residents to better reflect the interests of our many supporters.

In consultation with our lawyer, the Board is recommending voting Members approve the following three changes to the Association’s bylaws

1. Proposed Subsection 3.3

Voting Membership - Membership in the Association is open, at any time, to individuals, families, associations, corporations, government departments or agencies, societies, partnerships, businesses, estates or other legal entities that are residents of Ontario interested in furthering the Association’s purposes while always considering the needs of local and indigenous communities, in the sole discretion of the Board to determine, and who have applied for and been accepted into membership by resolution of the Board or in such other manner as may be determined by the Board.

2. Proposed Section 3.6

Add at the end of 3.6 the following: “The record date for determining the members entitled to receive notice of and vote at a meeting of the members shall be 50 days before the date of the meeting.”

3. Proposed Adding Section 10.6 with subsequent sections renumbered:

"The business transacted at the annual meeting shall include:
(a) receipt of the agenda;
(b) receipt of the minutes of the previous annual and subsequent special meetings;
(c) consideration of the financial statements;
(d) consideration of the audit or review engagement report, if any;
(e) reappointment or new appointment of the auditor or person to conduct a review engagement for the coming year;
(f) election of Directors; and
(g) such other or special business as may be set out in the notice of meeting.

No other item of business shall be included on the agenda for an annual meeting unless a Member’s proposal has been given to the Association of any matter that the Member proposes to raise at the meeting in accordance with section 56 of the Act at least 60 days before the date of the meeting, so that such item of new business can be included in the notice of annual meeting."