Fall Quarterly Meeting Agenda

[Bob Armstrong]

AGENDA

( Final – as of Sept. 29 )

Governors’ On-line Fall Quarterly Meeting
October 1 - 7 , 2010

1. Governors’ sign in - Bob A
2. President’s Welcome/ Report – Bob G
3. Questions/Comments on the On-line Meeting Procedures - Bob A
4. 2010-11 Revised Budget – Fred McKim
5. CFC Charitable Status/ CRA – Bob G
6. Procedures’ Committee – Update – Bob A
7. AGM Modernization Subcommittee - Update – Bob A
8. CFC Handbook Updating Subcommittee – Update – Bob A
9. Tournament Director and Organizer Certification Program ( TDOCP ) Committee – Mandate – Chris Mallon
10. New CFC Website - Update – Bob G
11. CFC Discussion Boards – Usefulness – Phil Haley
12. Tournament Coordination Committee – Gordon Ritchie
13. The CFC Youth Program ( 2010 WYCC/CYCC ) – Operation – Michael Barron
14. 2010-11 Provincial YCC Qualifiers to the 2011 CYCC – Michael Barron
15. Non-Executive Officer Vacancies – Update – Bob G.
16. CFC Membership Fee/ Tournament Playing Fee ( = “ tournament membership “ ) – Aris Marghetis
17. Modifications to the Can. Rating System / Report of the Rating Auditor – Bill Doubleday
18. CFC Objective of Chess Promotion to the General Public – Bob A
19. CFC Membership Drive - CFC/Club Joint Advertising Poster Campaign – Bob G.
20. Elimination of Past President/ Life Governors ( Motion 2010-03 & 04 )– for discussion
20A. Motion 2011-01: Clarification of Annual Meeting proxy rules – for discussion
21. Motion 2010-03 – Elimination of Past President Life Governors – for voting
22. Motion 2010-04 – Non-voting Governors-at-Large – for voting
23. Motion 2011-01: Clarification of Annual Meeting proxy rules – for voting
24.Revised Budget Vote
25. New Business – new agenda threads authorized by Bob G., and posted by Bob A, as raised by Governors
26. Items for the Winter ( January ) Quarterly Meeting
27. Concluding Address – Bob G

( Note: those named are the ones who put the item on the agenda, or have some standing re the item, and they will write the introductory post for the item for the meeting )

[Bob Armstrong]

Today, Sat. Oct. 2, I posted the following on the members' CFC Chess Chat Forum, to give members notice of our meeting ( there had previously been posts that the meeting was upcoming ):

CFC Governors Currently Meeting - Fall On-line Meeting

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At 11:00 AM EDT yesterday, Friday, Oct. 1, the CFC Governors ( there are 60 of them ) began their quarterly Fall on-line meeting on the confidential Governors' Discssion Board. Already, after only 24 hours, 45% of the governors had attended ( 27/60 ). The Meeting goes on for a full week, Oct. 1 -7, with the first 3 1/2 days devoted to debating agenda items, and the last 3 mainly focussed on the voting on motions.

Here is their agenda, and you will see the governors are wrestling with a number of controversial and important CFC issues:

AGENDA

( Final – as of Sept. 29 )

Governors’ On-line Fall Quarterly Meeting
October 1 - 7 , 2010

1. Governors’ sign in - Bob A
2. President’s Welcome/ Report – Bob G
3. Questions/Comments on the On-line Meeting Procedures - Bob A
4. 2010-11 Revised Budget – Fred McKim
5. CFC Charitable Status/ CRA – Bob G
6. Procedures’ Committee – Update – Bob A
7. AGM Modernization Subcommittee - Update – Bob A
8. CFC Handbook Updating Subcommittee – Update – Bob A
9. Tournament Director and Organizer Certification Program ( TDOCP ) Committee – Mandate – Chris Mallon
10. New CFC Website - Update – Bob G
11. CFC Discussion Boards – Usefulness – Phil Haley
12. Tournament Coordination Committee – Gordon Ritchie
13. The CFC Youth Program ( 2010 WYCC/CYCC ) – Operation – Michael Barron
14. 2010-11 Provincial YCC Qualifiers to the 2011 CYCC – Michael Barron
15. Non-Executive Officer Vacancies – Update – Bob G.
16. CFC Membership Fee/ Tournament Playing Fee ( = “ tournament membership “ ) – Aris Marghetis
17. Modifications to the Can. Rating System / Report of the Rating Auditor – Bill Doubleday
18. CFC Objective of Chess Promotion to the General Public – Bob A
19. CFC Membership Drive - CFC/Club Joint Advertising Poster Campaign – Bob G.
20. Elimination of Past President/ Life Governors ( Motion 2010-03 & 04 )– for discussion
20A,Motion 2011-01: Clarification of Annual Meeting proxy rules – for discussion
21. Motion 2010-03 – Elimination of Past President Life Governors – for voting
22. Motion 2010-04 – Non-voting Governors-at-Large – for voting
23. Motion 2011-01: Clarification of Annual Meeting proxy rules – for voting
24.Revised Budget Vote
25. New Business – new agenda threads authorized by Bob G., and posted by Bob A, as raised by Governors
26. Items for the Winter ( January ) Quarterly Meeting
27. Concluding Address – Bob G

( Note: those named are the ones who put the item on the agenda, or have some standing re the item, and they will write the introductory post for the item for the meeting )

It is sometimes hard to understand, from an ordinary members' perspective, what the governors do to justify their " volunteer " positions. This agenda shows that running a national organization in Canada is somewhat of an operation, even with the modest budget the CFC works on, and that there are many issues that arise which have to be decided. The CFC Executive ( President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Youth Coordinator, FIDE Representative and Past President ) make the day to day administrative decisions and run the operation generally. But all policy decisions, and major administrative decisions, are made by the Governors.

So they meet quarterly to debate and decide - the July Summer AGM is a meeting where they meet face-to-face; the other three ( Spring, Fall & Winter ) are on-line meetings. So the role of the governor in CFC is an important one, and most governors take the responsibility seriously. Last meeting in April, we had over 60% of the governors attend that first " trial " on-line meeting ( it is the first time the governors had met in this way ). We fully expect that we will beat that attendance record this meeting.

If you have any issues you want raised, please contact your local governor, or one of the governors at large, and ask them to raise your issue in the meeting. Here are the current governors:

2010-11 CFC Governors ( 60 + 5 vacancies )

Governors-at-large ( 21 + 4 vacancies )

CFC Executive ( 2 )

• Bob Gillanders – President - rgillanders@cogeco.ca
• Mark Dutton – Vice-President ( see Provincial Rep. – BC )
• Lyle Craver – Secretary ( see Provincial Rep. – BC )
• Fred McKim – Treasurer ( see Provincial Rep. – PEI )
• Hal Bond - FIDE Rep. ( see Governors-at-Large – See Past Presidents [ Last 5 years ] )
• Michael Barron – Youth Coordinator ( see Provincial Rep. – Ont. – GTCL )
• Eric Van Dusen – Past President - eric.vandusen@yahoo.ca

Non-Executive Officers ( 1 + 4 vacancies )

• Eddie Urquhart - Masters Rep - ueddie@hotmail.com
• Bill Doubleday – Rating Auditor ( see Provincial Rep – Ont. – EOCA )
• Daxin ( Anna ) Jin - Women’s Coordinator - jin.anna@yahoo.com
• Vacancy – Tournament Coordinator
• Vacancy – Public Relations Coordinator
• Vacancy – Director of Fund-raising

Past Presidents ( Last 5 Years ) ( 3 + 1 vacancy )
David Lavin - davidfl321@yahoo.ca
Hal Bond - halbond@sympatico.ca
Vacancy – 2006-7 ( no full term president )
Christopher Mallon - cmallon@chess.ca

Life Governors ( 10 )

• Phil Haley - philghaley@rogers.com
• Les Bunning - lesbunning@travel-net.com
• Terry Fleming – no e-mail
• Bruce Thomas - rovingchessnuts@shaw.ca
• Francisco Cabanas - cabanas@finee.com
• Peter Stockhausen - pstockhausen@gmail.com
• Maurice Smith - m-smith@sympatico.ca
• Yves Farges - yvesmfarges@hotmail.com
• Halldor Palsson - halldor.palsson@bc-cb.gc.ca
• Nathan Divinsky - capablanca@shaw.ca

Other Organizations ( 2 )

• Valer Demian ( Canadian Correspondence Chess Association ) - vdemian@shaw.ca
• Lynn Stringer ( Chess Foundation of Canada ) - lynnstringer@shaw.ca

Elite Players ( 2 )

Jean Hébert (Canadian Champion) - jhebert1@videotron.ca
Mark Bluvshtein (Canadian Closed Runner-Up) - whitenelly1@hotmail.com

Provincial Governors ( 39 + 3 vacancies )

Alberta ( 5 )
• Ronald Hinds - ronald.hinds@shaw.ca
• Micah Hughey - mhughey@hotmail.com
• Vlad Rekhson - vrekhson@yahoo.ca
• Rick Pedersen - rpedersen@interbaun.com
• Simon Ong - simong89@yahoo.ca

British Columbia ( 5 )
• Lyle Craver - secretary@chess.ca
• Mark Dutton - markdutton@shaw.ca
• David Moore – davidmoore333@gmail.com
• Paul Leblanc = pc-leblanc@shaw.ca
• Howard Wu – hwu@islandnet.com

New Brunswick ( 2 )
• Ken Duff - kduff@rogers.com
• Ken Craft - kcraft@unbsj.ca

Newfoundland Labrador ( 1 )
• Alick Tsui - alick.tsui@gmail.com

Ontario ( 18 )

GTCL ( 8 )
• Bob Armstrong – bobarm@sympatico.ca
• Nava Starr - starrnava@yahoo.com
• Chris Field - chris.field@rogers.com
• Ilia Bluvshtein - ibluvsht@uniongas.com
• Nikolay Noritsyn - nikolay28@hotmail.com
• Michael Barron – barron045@yahoo.com
• Vladimir Birarov – vlady0101@yahoo.com
• Egidijus Zeromskis - see CFC Website - Contact Us
SWOCL ( 4 )
• Garvin Nunes - chesshamilton@gmail.com
• Michael von Keitz - michael.v.keitz@gmail.com
• Stuart Brammall - brammall1@hotmail.com
• Patrick McDonald - patrick@psmcd.net
EOCL ( 4 )
• Garland Best - gbestchess@gmail.com.
• Bill Doubleday - wdoubleday@rogers.com ( Rating Auditor )
• Aris Marghetis - arismarghetis@rogers.com
• Gordon Ritchie - gordonritchie@rogers.com
NOCL ( 1 )
• Ellen Nadeau - ellennadeau@yahoo.ca
Substitute for SWOCL member Elected President ( 1 )
Rob Clark ( from NOCL ) - clark_rob@hotmail.com

Prince Edward Island ( 1 )
• Fred McKim - fred_mckim@hotmail.com

Quebec ( 2 )
• Hugh Brodie - hugh.brodie@mcgill.ca
• Richard Keep - c.delongchamps@cgocable.ca

Saskatchewan ( 1 )
David Steer - ron.dino@gmail.com

Manitoba ( 2 )

Steven Lipic - stephen.lipic@gmail.com
Ken Einarsson - ken659@mts.net

Nova Scotia ( 2 )

Albert Ede - albertedward@eastlink.ca
Chris Felix - chrischessmaster@yahoo.com

Northwest Territory - vacant

Nunavut - vacant

Yukon – vacant

This Chart is now correct and complete ( 10/10/01 ).

Though the meeting is confidential, there is discussion already at this meeting to change the format so it could be " viewed by the public ", though only governors would have the power to post.

At the end of the meeting, " summaries " are prepared of each agenda item discussed, and these are then posted on the CFC Website, where the governors' letters are posted. So everyone will have access to them ( the summaries of the April 2010 meeting are posted there ).

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Although Bob G has granted no special dispensations from attending the meeting, I understand that he will not be put out if governors fail to attend tomorrow, Sunday, Oct. 3, between 1:00 AM and 6:00 AM. No it is not that you will be sleepiing.

Its that the final 11th round of the Chess Olympiad is being broadcast. The Canadian Open Section team plays 56th ranked Montenegro ( we're ranked # 53 ), and the Women's Team plays 54th ranked Venezuela ( we're ranked # 58 ). Both of these teams are in our weight class, and wins will lift us up substantially in our finishing ranking, compared to our starting ranking.

Here is the very respectable Canadian record to Rd. 10:

Open Section

............Initial............................... .....................................Initial
Rd.......Ranking ........Country..........Score .........Country..........Ranking

1...........53.......... Canada........2 – 0 ( 4 - 0 ).....Mozambique.....127
2...........33......... Uzbekistan.. ..2 - 0 ( 2.5 - 1.5 )...Canada... .....53
3...........74...........Uruguay.......1 - 1 ( 2 - 2 )........Canada.........53
4...........56...........Canada........2 - 0 ( 3.5 - .5 )....Thailand........94
5...........56 ..........Canada........2 – 0 ( 2.5 – 1.5 )...Denmark.......44
6...........28...........Croatia.........1 - 1 ( 2 - 2 )........Canada.........53
7,..........53...........Canada.........1 - 1 ( 2 - 2 )........Bulgaria..........8
8...........66...........Mongolia.......0 - 2 ( 1.5 - 2.5 )....Canada.........53
9...........17.......Czech Republic...2 - 0 ( 3 - 1 )........Canada...... ...53
10..........53..........Canada.........1 - 1 ( 2 - 2).........Kazakhstan.....41
11..........53..........Canada.................... ................Montenegro....56

Canada’s Total : 12 match points; 23 game points.

Women’s Section

1...........58...........Canada........2 - 0 ( 3.5 - .5 )...Uganda.........113
2...........58...........Canada.........0 - 2 (1.5 - 2.5 )..Kazakhstan,,,,.37
3...........67...........Albania..........0 - 2 ( 0 - 4 ) .....Canada..........58
4...........22............Latvia......... 2 - 0 ( 3.5 -.5 )....Canada .........58
5...........58............Canada........2 – 0 ( 4 – 0 ).......Syria.............87
6...........34............Belarus........0 - 2 ( 3.5 - .5 )....Canada..........58
7...........58............Canada........1 - 1 ( 2 - 2 ).......Singapore.......64
8...........45............Norway........0 - 2 ( 1.5 - 2.5 )..Canada..........58
9...........58............Canada........1 - 1 ( 2 - 2 )........Montenegro....47
10.........39............England........2 - 0 ( 2.5 - 1.5 )......Canada.......58
11.........54............Venezuela................ ...................Canada.......58

Canada’s Total: 10 match points; 22 game points.

The official website for live games is : http://ugra-chess.com/results.php .

Note that if you are not there, then you are expected to be here ( and certainly not hugging the pillow ) !!

Bob A

[Bob Armstrong]

After 1 1/2 days of meeting, the most popular topic is:

Item # 16 - CFC Membership Fee / Tournament Playing Fee ( = tournament membership )

It has 18 replies to the original post, and 115 views so far!

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Please don't forget that we have had so many agenda items, that some have gone over to the page 2 screen. Please don't forget about them.

Bob