AGM Minutes
Birmingham's Saskatoon
Call to order: 11:13 am
Adopt Agenda: Bill moves, Knud seconds. All in favour, none opposed, carried. Minutes from 2024 distributed and reviewed. Vasili moved to adopt and Gary seconds. All in favour,
carried.

Reports:
President-Rick

We have left CADTR. They were designed to unify dental techs across Canada and make a test across the board. It did not follow that plan. Rather than supporting techs within Canada, it is supporting foreign workers coming into Canada. We decided not to support that anymore. Rick sees no benefit of us being part of it anymore.

Vice President-Jason
It has been my pleasure to serve the board since 1999. In that period of time through my various roles I've always attempted to serve with professionalism and with the associations best interest at heart. I would wish that lab owners would somehow come together to create some sort of owners group so more of a voice is present in getting the message out to the public to demand their work is being done by a registered dental technician and not some machines the dentist's office. I hope to see you all at the education day planned in September take care of yourselves and those close to you.

Registrar-Brent.
54 RDTS, 6 Inactive, 4 students. Last year's numbers still working in this year's numbers.

Education-Charlane
2 people wrote the practical, neither of which passed.

Knud-CE Points
If anyone has points please send them to his e-mail so he can update them, he needs proof of the online course you took or certificate. Anything about dental, medical. Education points are there to protect the public, increasing our knowledge and increasing our potential to keep our jobs or the dentist will just end up leaving to do it all themselves. You need 24 points in a three-year term end of 2026 is the deadline.

Treasurer-Bill
Apologizes about not sending out the report after last year's AGM. This year's report will get mailed out with Brents receipts and membership cards. Everything is the way it should be, and our legal fund is in good shape. E transfers should be set up through a through CIBC, Bill was there this morning to investigate the issue but having trouble dealing with them. He is researching different banks to switch to because we need to change banks to do better for us. Knut motions to accept reports is read, Kris seconds, all in favour none opposed carried.

Old Business:

1. E transfers, Bill already touched on this, one lab has already transferred the fees, and it was successful. Bill is still looking into capabilities for sending digital receipts.

2. Website: Rick reported that people cannot access information on our website. It has been down for some time, and we have not been able to find someone to pick it up. There are people who attempting to use our website to open a digital dental lab and we need to put stop to it. Brent thinks he has someone who would be able and willing to run our website. Gave us a price of $1100 up front and then $30.00 an hour after we start adding to it. Whoever we hire we need a structure and ideas for them to start, Vasili suggests looking at other provinces websites so that we are up to date and relevant. Suggestions are bylaws, CE links, newsletters, and meeting dates.

New Business

1. day September 20th at smileys. Suggested topics: mental health: financial planning: recruitment for hiring and training: how to get our professional out there.

2. Austin questions how do we get people to pass a practical when it's so outdated. Everything is digital now so our extremely outdated. We need to adapt, even the universities are shifting to more digital modern methods. Our exam qualification methods need to change and become more valid to today's workforce. Al is now happening in the workforce already in the next 5 years at least 40% of our jobs will be taken over by AI.

3. We need to make an issue with the government about the people who are doing chair side that haven't done the RDT certification and aren't being overseen by a certified RDT. We need to approach this as a protecting the patient side of things "Megan" is someone who can help us approach the government. The remake failure rate of the work being done by Chairside mills, is very high it should be required that the people doing the lab tech work, should be an RDT. Legislation would need to be changed, it is listed as dental lab work should be done by the RDT, so that the wording would need to be changed so needs to be done.

4. Austin suggests marketing that our work is done in Sask. We can advertise at the crown product is "Made proudly in Saskatchewan". One step would be also to start by approaching the dentists coming out of the universities. We should be promoting local labs and keeping the work in Saskatchewan. Vasili suggests that we have an RDT approaching the dentists at their conventions to show the differences between lab produced versus chairside milled crowns. The focus of the association should be getting the knowledge out there to the dentists and the public.

Certificates -None to hand out

Elections 6 positions to be filled potentially.

1. Mary nominates Trudie- Trudie accepts
2. Knud nominates John T. - John declines.
3. Rick nominates Kris - Kris accepts
4. Austin nominates Ramon - Ramon accepts.
5. John nominates Vasili - Vasili declines
6. Rick will step down
7. Knud will remain
8. Brent will remain
9. Bill will remain
10. Charlane remains.

We accept the new board as stated above.

We can create a committee to help head up some of the hot topics that need attention.

1. Rick
2. Austin
3. Vasili
4. Doug
5. Kristian
6. Vince

Adjourned at 2:00 PM John moved to adjourn Kris seconds