2025 Election & AGM

Learn about our 2025 Board Election and Annual General Meeting

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2025 Board Election

Members that are legal entities (i.e. limited companies, registered societies etc.) must appoint an individual to vote on their behalf and complete the proxy form available at your branch

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2025 Annual General Meeting

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Election FAQs

If you're signed up for e-statements and/or we have your email on file, you will recieve an email with voting instructions
If you recieve paper statements and we don't have an email on file, you will recieve election information by mail
Voting for both the election of new Directors for the First Credit Union Board and the Special Resolution will take place at the same time between April 8th to April 19th.
How to vote: online, in-branch or mail

What is the purpose of the Board of Directors?

We are invested in increasing the positive impact we have on people, our planet, and the prosperity of our communities. Our Board is looking for passionate and community-minded members to join us in achieving that vision by serving as a Director.

The Board of Directors provides critical guidance and oversight by determining strategic direction, setting policies, representing members' interests and working with management to maximize the Credit Union's impact.

What are the requirements?

For the purposes of being eligible to vote in the election, a person must be a member in good standing, other than a junior member, on the day which is 90 days prior to the commencement of voting. A member in good standing is a member who at the date on which good standing is determined has purchased, paid for, and holds a minimum of 25 Class "A" Membership Equity Shares and is not more than 90 days delinquent in any obligation to the Credit Union.

How to Vote

1. Method of voting:

i. Personal members who are eligible to vote have the option to vote in one of the following ways:
a. By electronic means through our online voting portal
b. By mail-in paper ballot; or (request at executive.admin@firstcu.ca)
c. By paper ballot, cast at any one of our branches

ii. Members that are non-personal legal entities (i.e., limited companies, registered societies, or other legal entities) or associations and are eligible to vote must appoint an individual to vote on their behalf and complete the separate proxy form available at your branch. The appointed individual must be 19 years of age or older. Voting on behalf of a non-personal legal entity can only be done in-branch or by mail-in ballot.

2. Voting will commence take place in April 2025

3. Voting by paper ballot can occur in any of our branches during regular operating hours. Ballots submitted by mail must be post-marked.

4. To be eligible to vote a person must be a member in good standing, other than a junior member, at least 90 days prior to the commencement of voting. A member in good standing is a member, who at the date on which good standing is determined has purchased, paid for, and holds the number of Class "A" Membership Equity Shares required by these Rules; and is not more than 90 days delinquent in any obligation to the credit union.

5. In addition to voting by electronic means, members also have the right to either:

i. Request in writing, by telephone, or in person at a branch of the Credit Union, not less than ten days prior to the close of voting, that a ballot be mailed to them, which ballot may then be cast by mail or by deposit at a branch of the Credit Union; or

ii. Request in person at a branch of the Credit Union, prior to the close of voting, that a ballot be made available to them, which ballot may then be cast by mail or by deposit at a branch of the Credit Union.

First Credit Union operates on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the K’òmoks, Klahoose, Tla’amin and Squamish Nations