By Staff
July 4th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
The Art Gallery held their Annual meeting virtually late in June.
Lina Jabra completed her interim Executive Director assignment. The Board has yet to announce who the new Executive Director is going to be.
While they didn’t announce who the new Executive Director is going to be they did say goodbye to Lina Jabra.
The following were elected to the Board:
John Arnold,
Maureen Healey,
Jeff Martin,
Diana Tuczynski,
Garratt Wootton
The Board of Directors and its Ad Hoc Nominations Committee were to determine:
– The appropriate number of directors to properly discharge its governance responsibilities and work of the Board on behalf of the AGB,
– The process by which directors are recruited, evaluated, and selected to the AGB Board which process will include consideration of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as well as other criteria which will assist the Board to discharge its governance responsibilities and work on behalf of the AGB,
– The process by which the AGB orients and trains new directors: And
– To propose a slate of additional directors selected according to the above process
CARRIED
Then the Election of Directors took place. Allan Ramsay presented the Nomination Slate as follows:
Nominated for three-year terms:
Jane Depraitere (second term)
Dan Lawrie (second term)
Art patrons looking at the items being auctioned.
Later in the evening the following took place:
Jane Depraitere introduced the Officers of the 2021/2022 Board of Directors.
Chair: Jane Depraitere Vice Chair: Gokcin Nalsok Secretary: Susan Busby Treasurer: Tom Sawchuk
Ten days later we get this:
Jane Departure is no slouch; a lawyer with an MBA and a certification in accounting. LL. B., CGA, MBA
Jane Departure has stepped down as Board Chair.
Susan Busby is taking the position of Board Chair.
What happened?
There was no reason given for the departure of Jane Depraitere.
Once can speculate that there are issues over who the next Executive Director is going to be.
Susan Busby who is now the Board Chair. She is a retired Educator who worked as a teacher and Elementary School Principal for the Halton District School Board for 30 years. She has an undergraduate degree in History and a Masters of Education.
She was Chair of the Board at Nelson Youth Centres, Chair of the Board at the Halton Learning Foundation, Chair of the Board of Governors at Joseph Brant Hospital, and Chair of the Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation Board. She has worked on fundraising event committees for all of these organizations as well as Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Halton, the Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington Flood Relief and in support of Breast Cancer services and equipment. She was a member of the Our New Era Campaign Cabinet in support of the Redevelopment of Joseph Brant Hospital.
Susan has lived in Burlington since 1975 with her husband Bob. They have two adult children and three grandchildren.
Busby certainly has the chops for the job she has taken on. She was secretary and not the vice chair of the AGB.
Some follow up to be done on this story.
