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Lyle Craver
03-31-2013, 03:45 PM
We now welcome our President Mark Dutton

Mark S. Dutton, I.A.
04-01-2013, 10:46 AM
Dear Governors:

It has been an extremely busy period for your CFC Executive Board.

As most of you are aware by now, our previous president Michael von Keitz resigned in February and I took over the job on an interim basis until the next AGM.

Bob Gillanders has also left the Executive as Past President and Michael declined that position so it remains vacant.

We currently have an Executive of the 5 remaining members and I have been working very closely with Fred McKim, Hal Bond, Lyle Craver and Patrick McDonald.

The CFC recently handled 3 RFPS in March and we have had some very successful arrangements come out of these RFPs.

1. CFC Executive Director appointed

Michael Von Keitz was the unanimous selection of the Executive Director selection committee. He assumes his duties on May 1. The Executive members on the committee offered to abstain on the final vote, but the result would have been exactly the same. The Committee consisted of Govenors Hal Bond, Vlad Drkulec, Felix Dumont, Mark Dutton, and Paul LeBlanc. I acted as non-voting facilitator.

There were four other bids considered. The Committee was pleased with the quality of all bids submitted and while each could have been acceptable, feel confident they've selected the strongest applicant. In keeping with common business practice they will not be revealing the names of the other applicants.

2. CCN Editor Appointed

John Upper has been appointed the newest editor of Canadian Chess News. John will commence his responsibilities on May 1, 2013, preparing for the June newsletter and also providing a daily newsfeed on the CFC website. The CFC Newsletter Editor Selection Committee consisted of Governors: Mark Dutton, Ken Einarsson, and David Steer. The final round vote was a unanimous decision. There were 4 other bids submitted.

3. CFC Book & Equipment Supplier announced

The Selection Committee for the Book&Equipment Contract received a single application. They gave their unanimous recommendation for CMA to become the "Official CFC Supplier of Chess Books & Equipment" to the Executive, who ratified the contract. The following CFC Governors were on the committee: Bob Armstrong, Hal Bond, and Mark Dutton. I acted as non-voting facilitator.

The CFC will receive $8,000 per year for this deal, and takes us out of the sales business for the extent of the three year contract. This contract will allow the Executive Director to spend more time administrating and updating the Web Site. The contract will begin on May 1

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So with the above appointments - all effective May 1, 2013 we are 30 days away from a new "team" moving forward into our next fiscal year 2013-2014.

As our year end is coming up - we will need to get the Financial Statements prepared for our next AGM.

Hal Bond and I were presenting a motion (which has been withdrawn) about setting an earlier AGM.

For this year only I am asking that we move the meeting date for the online AGM to run from Monday, June 10 to Sunday, June 16, 2013

If we require the additional 7 days (that is allowed for AGMs) we would be finished by the 23rd of June.

I see that our Foundation under Paul Leblanc's excellent management will be OK with this and I have already requested that our new Executive Director have financial statements for year end review by May 14th.

Hope my suggested dates work for all Governors. If I don't hear any major objections, we can proceed with that timing. This would also be a good time to consider the "make-up" of the next Executive as we have lost Michael, Bob and we have already heard that Patrick McDonald will not be returning as Youth Coordinator. Lots to think about -- interested in serving the Executive and our membership -- then this is a good time to consider running and developing a platform for the "election".

If there is an issue or further debate on the date of the meeting- we can finalize this at our Online meeting scheduled right here - for the first week of April 2013.

Here is BC - things are quite frantic as I am the Tournament Director of the Grand Pacific Open (BC's largest tournament) which is finishing up here in Victoria today!

We have also voted out the HST here in BC which will require us to return to the previous system of PST and GST.

The CYCC this year has had some "loophole seekers" finding ways to circumvent our Handbook and rules in attempts to not pay or register their YCC qualifiers>

We definitely need to address filling in all those loopholes and get the provinces back on track (especially here in BC with the BCJC attempting to dis-affiliate and yet still saying they are in charge of qualifying players to the CYCC and do not need to have rated or registered YCCs because the rules don't say they have to. Perhaps our Secretary Lyle Crave (also on the BCCF Board of Directors) will be able to expand on these issues.

As I must rush out to start the last round of our FIDE event here today (7th GPO), I will wrap this mini report up and look forward to some productive discussions to move our Federation forward.

Best regards to all - and have a good online meeting.

Mark S. Dutton,
I.A., I.O.
CFC President

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Aris Marghetis
04-02-2013, 09:57 AM
Mark, I just wanted to take a moment to express probably what most of us thought, to say thanks for stepping in as President. Also, you must be swamped with the event you just finished, yet still posted here in a timely manner. Maybe in the future, we could avoid having these meetings over key tournament weekends.

Mark S. Dutton, I.A.
04-02-2013, 05:14 PM
Mark, I just wanted to take a moment to express probably what most of us thought, to say thanks for stepping in as President. Also, you must be swamped with the event you just finished, yet still posted here in a timely manner. Maybe in the future, we could avoid having these meetings over key tournament weekends.

Dr. Mr. IA IO Marghetis:

Thanks for the kind words.

Yes -- I have been swamped with the annual Grand Pacific Open; Victoria Youth Qualifier; Blitz, Bughouse, media, etc.

I have many parents here in BC asking me what is going on in Ottawa (https://sites.google.com/site/ottawachess2013/) this summer.

So I will ask you right here and now.

Is the Canadian Open (https://sites.google.com/site/ottawachess2013/home/canadian-open-2013) FIDE rated and CFC rated as per usual?

Is the CYCC (https://sites.google.com/site/ottawachess2013/home/cycc2013) both FIDE rated and CFC rated as usual?

These parents are worried that neither event states that information. :confused:

Maybe we need to always state the obvious on these websites and flyers.

Please let the governors know the answer as Chief TD. Thanks!

Christopher Mallon
04-02-2013, 05:17 PM
Mark, I think the schedule for the AGM is way too condensed, personally. I'd like to see 7 days of discussion followed by voting.

Mark S. Dutton, I.A.
04-02-2013, 05:40 PM
Mark, I think the schedule for the AGM is way too condensed, personally. I'd like to see 7 days of discussion followed by voting.

I have no issue with that Chris.

I suggested in my post that "If we require the additional 7 days (that is allowed for AGMs) we would be finished by the 23rd of June."

I just want to get a date set that isn't running into Canada Day, etc.

So as I said why not consider the period of 14 days of : "the online AGM to run from Monday, June 10 to Sunday, June 23, 2013"

Aris Marghetis
04-02-2013, 11:29 PM
Hi Mark, I have not yet figured out how to embed quotes from posts here, so here is a manual attempt to respond to your questions inline. Hope this looks OK.

Mark asks : Is the Canadian Open FIDE rated and CFC rated as per usual?
Aris replies : As of today, the Canadian Open is to be rated FIDE and CFC, with myself as Chief Arbiter, and with Halldor Palsson as one of my Deputy Arbiters.

Mark asks : Is the CYCC both FIDE rated and CFC rated as usual?
Aris replies : As of today, the CYCC is to be rated CFC, but not FIDE. Please note that I am not involved with the CYCC. I leave it to that Chief Arbiter to reply.

If you have any more questions, if I may suggest, please feel free to call me.

Thanks and regards, Aris.

Egidijus Zeromskis
04-03-2013, 08:52 AM
Regarding AGM dates:
In principle it is TWO separate meetings of outgoing and incoming Governors. Thus, at least 7 days for each group should be dedicated, and probably more for Incoming as elections will consume a lot of time (discussions + votings).