The members of the Board are Professor Leslie Pal, chair (3 year term), Ms. Janice Cochrane (3 year term), Prof. Mark Sproule-Jones (2 year term), Prof. Allan Tupper (2 year term), and Prof. Iain Gow (1 year term). As members complete their terms, successors will be appointed to 3 year terms. The board is now establishing a pool of reviewers and in late September will issue a call inviting CAPPA member programs at the master’s level to apply for accreditation.

Ten national student awards were given. Six presented posters at the IPAC Annual Conference and three winners were chosen for the thought leadership awards. The winners were Louise Bellingham, York University (gold), Simon Dupuis, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (silver), and Melody Munro, University of Victoria (bronze). The awards process represents a successful collaboration among CAPPA, IPAC, and the Canadian Association for Students of Politics, Policy, and Public Administration. The School of Public Administration of the University of Victoria has played a key role in supporting this initiative.

The meeting unanimously approved the following amendments:

• A set of amendments to article 4 extending the term of the President to two years and establishing a maximum of two consecutive two year terms, establishing a mechanism to choose a president-elect at the AGM in the second year of a president’s term, and increasing from three to four years the maximum period that an individual can serve in the same executive position.
• An amendment to article 6.6 to recognize CAPPA’s role in the national student and thought leadership awards.
• A new article to recognize the CAPPA board’s role in choosing the members of the arms-length accreditation board.

Two constitutional amendments were suggested for next year:

• An amendment requiring all members of the CAPPA board to belong to CAPPA member programs.
• An amendment to establish a nominating committee of the CAPPA board.

All (currently 29) paid-up member programs for the 2006-07 fiscal year are listed on the membership page on the CAPPA website. Almost all graduate level public administration, policy, or management programs are members. A considerable number of undergraduate political science departments – but not all – are members. To some extent, this depends on the strengths of the department’s public administration subdiscipline. Very few colleges (Humber, Fanshawe, Capilano) are members, and there is considerable potential for increasing membership in this area. The constitution (article 3d) provides for membership on the part of public service commissions or government training agencies, but CAPPA has not yet attempted to promote itself to those organizations. Vic Pakalnis has suggested doing this, and will begin by approaching the Ontario Government’s Centre for Leadership.

CAPPA began the 2005-06 fiscal year with a balance of approximately $15,600. Revenues included $7000 in membership fees and a contribution agreement of $15,500 from CSPS. The contribution agreement covered Fazley Siddiq’s study of public service recruitment practices ($3000), web development regarding accreditation ($3000), translation ($1500), and teaching release for the president ($8000). CAPPA’s membership fees covered travel, translation (including the accreditation report), other web development, membership in NASPAA, and compensation for the accreditation working group. The year concluded with net income of ($4700), leaving a closing balance of approximately $10,900.

CAPPA began the 2006-07 fiscal year with a balance of approximately $10,900. It has received $6700 in membership fees, and ultimately will receive between $7000 and $8000. A contribution agreement with CSPS has not yet been negotiated. Current expenses of approximately $3700 include travel, translation, web development, and membership in NASPAA. Membership fees should be able to cover these expenses for the entire fiscal year.

The meeting set dues for the 2007-08 fiscal year, beginning on April 1, 2007. The executive proposed maintaining dues at the current level of $250 for undergraduate and college programs, and increasing dues to $500 for programs with a graduate component. Several arguments were made for the proposed increase:

• It will contribute between $4000 and $5000 to providing .5 full-course equivalents of teaching relief for the next president or will help cover the cost of accreditation.
• CAPPA dues are far lower than those of NASPAA (from $800 US for the smallest programs up to $2900 US for programs with over 175 full-time students).

The dues schedule was approved unanimously.

A number of new initiatives for CAPPA were discussed and could be the subject of further discussions at the CSPS-CAPPA symposium:

• CAPPA involvement to co-ordinate participation of faculty members in international public management assistance projects
• An evaluation of government internship programs as well as Co-op programs
• Using the accreditation process to generate databases on master’s level curricula as well as involvement in ancillary programs and institutes
• Follow-up on the recruitment study
• Provide abstracts of recent doctoral dissertations in public policy/administration/management on the CAPPA website
• Increase collaboration among universities in doctoral education and advising, ultimately establishing a confederacy model
• Announce a date for the CSPS-CAPPA symposium as soon as possible and increase the number of younger faculty members attending
• Increasing contact with IPAC leadership, for example by including them on the CAPPA list-serve.

The 2006-07 executive includes the following continuing members: Sandford Borins, President; Evert Lindquist, past-President; Ken Rasmussen, Secretary-Treasurer; Jacques Bourgault, Ted Glenn, Vic Pakalnis, and Fazley Siddiq, all vice-presidents. Michael Keenan is ex-officio representative of CSPS. Two new vice-presidents were chosen: Joan Grace (University of Winnipeg) and Susan Phillips (Carleton University), bringing the complement of vice-presidents to six, as prescribed in the constitution. Mark Sproule-Jones resigned as vice-president to move to the accreditation board, and the meeting thanked him for his contributions while on the CAPPA board.