Candidates Sought for Vacancies on Board of Directors

CDA is pleased to announce the annual call for nominations for the CDA Board of Directors. The nominations period is open from July 4 to August 8. The Canadian Dam Association relies on volunteers to lead the Association by serving on the Board of Directors.

The Board is responsible for the effective management of CDA.  It sets strategy, develops programs for members’ benefit, provides due diligence and oversight to staff, ensures members’ rights are upheld, and has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the CDA’s resources are used appropriately.

Elections are held annually to fill open positions on the Board.  The following positions need to be filled for terms beginning at the 2022 Annual General Meeting this October.

• Vice President (three-year term: Vice President -> President -> Past President)
• Secretary-Treasurer (two-year term)
• Director-at-Large (two-year term)
• 5 Regional Directors (two-year terms): Alberta, New Brunswick / PEI, Ontario, Quebec, Territories

All directors are expected to attend and participate in regular Board meetings. The meetings are currently held monthly as a virtual meeting and in-person at the annual conference.  This year, we had two in-person meetings (October 2022 and May 2023) and regular virtual meetings in other months.  Directors are expected to be supported by their companies for these meetings.

• For more information on the roles and responsibilities of Regional Directors, please see the document of a similar name on the Governance page of the CDA website.  For information on the Director-at-Large position, please contact Lyne Trahan at executive.director@cda.ca.
• Information on the roles and responsibilities of the Officers (i.e.: the person elected Vice President this year becomes the President in the following year, and the Past President in the year after that) are shown in summary in section 5.16 of the By-Law (also available on the Governance page of the web site). You may also wish to directly contact the current members of the CDA Executive (Marie-Hélène Briand, Mike Cyr, Éric Péloquin and Navin Gautam).
• For even further information regarding the duties of the Regional Directors, please contact your current provincial/territorial director or the Executive Director, Lyne Trahan at executive.director@cda.ca. 
• To see a listing of current board members and their contact information, please visit the CDA website.  www.cda.ca.
   

To submit a nomination, please visit the Governance page, where you can complete and submit the nomination form.