30th Meeting of the Nominating Committee

1. Approval of Minutes

The minutes of the 29^th meeting were deemed to be an accurate reflection of the discussions which took place on May 26^th, 2005 and were approved.

1.1 Matters for Action and Business Arising
The following matters for action were reported on:

1. The Nominating Committee's recommendations as to new members for Institute Advisory Boards, as well as three chairs for the Institutes of Population and Public Health, Aging and Aboriginal Peoples Health were accepted by the Governing Council at its June 2005 meeting.
2. Governing Council agreed that all Institute Advisory Board membership should remain at sixteen members and suggested that those Institutes who have more than sixteen members develop a transition plan to reduce their membership to sixteen members within two years.
3. Governing Council approved the Nominating Committee's recommendations with respect to appointments to Council's various standing committees.

2. 2006 Conference Board of Canada Governance Awards

The Nominating Committee was presented with background information on the 2006 Conference Board of Canada Governance Award for the purpose of advising whether CIHR should answer the Call for Entries. Three governance innovations were proposed - Governing Council's Governance Action Plan; the systematized approach developed for the recruitment of volunteers to Council and its committees; and, the incremental and evolving approach of integrating ethics into CIHR's governance framework.

The Nominating Committee members supported the recommendation to answer the Call for Entries for the 2006 Governance Award and suggested that the governance innovation should integrate and highlight aspects of the all three of the proposed innovations.

Next Meeting

Members were informed that the next meeting would be scheduled in October 2005 for the purpose of reviewing proposed candidates for membership on various Council committees.